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I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

I look for friends who make me laugh.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.