Michael Jackson Quotes
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
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We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
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The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.
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Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.
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By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
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Find your star and throw it up to heaven. You still have it, don't you?
