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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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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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.
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As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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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.
