Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.
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Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
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Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space.
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I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.
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Batman had a certain speech pattern that I established because he was always Sherlock Holmes-ian. He was Basil Rathbone. In other words, he was always musing about something.
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We'd love to see a world where Venmo added support on the blockchain, then a Circle customer could pay a Venmo customer using their QR code or their blockchain address - and go between those instantly and for free.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
