King Quotes
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I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.
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I love James Taylor and Carole King, Joni Mitchell - this is, like, early '70s stuff. I love the stuff from the '40s. I love that tight harmony that the studio singers in the '50s would sing. I love Patsy Cline. Yeah, I'm all over the place.
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Popularity for a King is much more important among those he does not know than among those he does.
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The first principle was “Story Is King,” by which we meant that we would let nothing—not the technology, not the merchandising possibilities—get in the way of our story.
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I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.
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Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.
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Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
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Who to himself is law no law doth need,Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
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The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.
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Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.
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To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
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How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
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The King of Abyssinia always dines alone.
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KING: Well, some Christians are.
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E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.
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Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.
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The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
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''Don't you see what my power does for me? I could sit in on the councils of kings and dictators. It makes me king. It makes me—Nemesis.''
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In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.
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Even those modern secularists and liberals who hate the metaphysics illustrated by Plato’s allegory of the cave thrill to the idea that the common man is in the grip of illusion and ought to be ruled by philosopher-kings, even if their idea of a philosopher-king would have filled Plato with abject horror.
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A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.
