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"King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens."
"I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place."
"The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done."
"Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us."
"I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do."
"There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are."
"The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything."
"Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical."
"Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend."
"Change your thinking, and you will change your life."
"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
"Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is."
"I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord."
"You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different."
"The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think."
"Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived."
"You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice."
"Reality is always kinder than your thinking."
"You won’t have to watch what you say if you watch what you think."
"To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening."
