Alveda King Quotes

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Alveda King

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TruthRacismEqualityFaceBecome

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

Joanna Scott

RealityEntertainmentFictionMay

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

Jerry Lewis

WordsI CanNiceWantRemembered

All living things come hardwired with certain traits and characteristics that are part of our nature, meaning that these things come naturally to us: they're what we're meant to do, and they're how universal intelligence flows though us best. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, etc.

Jen Sincero

NatureBestIntelligenceBirdsFly

Addressing climate change and positioning the United States as the leader in advanced energy should be a top priority for our country and our economy, and I applaud the Obama administration for the steps it is taking.

John Delaney

ChangeLeaderEnergyCountryTop

Acting scares me.

John Lurie

MeActingScares

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

John Major

ThinkPrimeRolePressCourt

I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

Steve Antin

LoveSunsetGreatDayNew YorkCity

I just talk just to talk. I like to see what other people think. There's some things somebody tweets me every day where I'm like, 'Wow, I never thought of this issue that way.' It starts great conversation with people who I would never get a chance to actually communicate with.

Torrey Smith

GreatDayPeopleMeChanceThink

Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.

Trevor Jackson

MyselfWritingCountryDopeOut

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

Tommy Wiseau

I AmActingMoviesActorStageMany

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

Mary J. Blige

MyselfBestAppreciateDoingLook

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Donald Hall

LifePoetryMy LifeDoneImportant

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