Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Recycling plastic is a good thing. However, stopping the cycle - and the plastic waste - before it starts is better.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
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So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
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I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough. When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
