Kings Quotes - Page 14

• It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.

  Bill Ayers

  Stupid, Party, People

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I got messed up between my fight with Ken Norton and my fight with Larry Holmes; I got messed up with alcohol. I needed at least a year more experience, with three or four more fights before I fought Holmes. But I couldn't get any fights. Don King had all the contenders, and unless I signed myself over to him, I couldn't get a fight.

  Gerry Cooney

  Fighting, Years, Alcohol

  Source: www.boxing247.com

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• Don King ain't a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don't hold any hard feelings toward him.

  Larry Holmes

  Cutting, Guy, Feelings

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• I did a job, [Don King] took money, probably more than he should have. If I was supposed to get $10 million, I was lucky to get $6.5 million. It happens and you can't do much, you decide whether to take it or leave it. King was a promoter, and he was good at it.

  Larry Holmes

  Jobs, Should Have, Lucky

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• Your kids have been taught that there is a more equivalence between Martin Luther King and today's Muslims - a moral equivalent between today's aggrieved gays and lessons and Muslims. They're all victims of an evil and ill-formed United States of America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Gay, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• After the first one [Twilight Saga movie], as soon as people start referring to something as a franchise. A franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. That's how they refer to it. They love it when something has become a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Frustration, Light, Might

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

  Robin Leach

  Dream, Queens, People

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Martin Luther King was a voice to the voiceless, and he did that tirelessly, and his faith was the engine to that. But he was just a human being, at the end of the day.

  David Oyelowo

  Voice, The End Of The Day, Luther

  Source: www.ncregister.com

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• The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.

  Harry Belafonte

  Crush, Long, Abuse

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Being a progressive himself, Franklin Roosevelt was talking about the fact that we should provide jobs for everyone who wants one. People do have a right to live in decent housing. They do have a right to education. FDR was preaching this gospel in the '30s, and Dr. Martin Luther King did the same thing in the 1960s with the Poor People's March on Washington. Folks in this country have these rights and it's the job of this country to answer this call.

  Nina Turner

  Country, Jobs, Rights

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics would be anything that I would be a part of. But I realized that I had to get involved. Then, when Martin Luther King was assassinated and the Vietnam War was raging, I felt that my world was falling apart. I had these two beautiful children - three and one - and I just said, "I have to make it better."

  Barbara Boxer

  Beautiful, Children, Wall

  Source: progressive.org

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• Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.

  Stephen Marche

  Horse, Children, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the emperor's a god, or idolized, or we have to do what the dear leader says. And, expressly, that it's a system of equal rights, and then governments are instituted to secure those rights.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Rights, Government

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When God's children disobeyed their heavenly Father, they damaged everything. When Adam and Eve rebelled against the King of the universe, they broke the whole world. This is why there is evil and suffering. Bad things happen in a world that's broken.

  Greg Koukl

  Children, Father, Evil

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.

  David Oyelowo

  People, Leader, Doubt

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Dr. Martin Luther King was never a man to say 'I've got this' as the leader of the movement. He wasn't always sure that his decisions were correct, because he knew every decision he made was putting lives at risk, including his and his family's lives.

  David Oyelowo

  Men, Decision, Leader

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king of some little Arab village. No young man, and no old man either, should have so much power over the life and death of so many helpless individuals. It is corrupting. It sometimes provokes desperate, savage and indiscriminate violence among the occupied.

  Amos Oz

  Girl, Gun, Boys

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Writing, Men, People

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Actors make a bunch of money and they are superstars and then all of a sudden they are 35 and they are an old man and then you never hear from them again. So they basically live like a king for a decade and then they are done.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Men, Actors, Done

  "Thing For Rachel Maddow. Seriously. He’s Her #1 Fan". AfterElton Interview, www.newnownext.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Sometimes, Barack Obama is Martin Luther King, sometimes, he a black militant from the Sixties, then he's a Baptist minister. He can be so different. There's not yet an Obama voice.

  Shelby Steele

  Voice, Black, Different

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• I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Believe, Definitions

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom of Heaven is on earth. If Jesus is king in my heart, then the Kingdom of God is in me.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Heart, Heaven

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• I think there's a part of all of us that wonders how we would survive on an island untouched by Man. Even better, an island untouched by Man and inhabited by King Kong.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Men, Thinking, Islands

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Icons, Cinema, Modern

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