Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
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The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.
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The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
