Kings Quotes - Page 7

• I wanted something different. I'd been using the C+ amps for a long time, and I love them - they're one of my favorite amps ever. But on this album [Road Kings] I wanted - there were a couple reasons, actually. One is that I wanted a more aggressive sound, some more teeth and hair.

  John Petrucci

  Couple, Hair, Long

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• With the Road King amp, you're able to switch power tubes and speakers and do all these different things. And I didn't want to have five different heads in my rack. And there's something about, when you do the type of setup that I have, unless you have a dedicated amp to a dedicated speaker and you're actually switching, you have to use the same power section of the main head that you're using.

  John Petrucci

  Different, Use, Want

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• Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Thinking, People

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and heads of state on the one hand, and his ability to engage with ordinary people, equally comfortably.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Queens, Eye, Hands

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• The reason why I praise the lion is because the lion is the king of the jungle.

  DJ Khaled

  Lions, Reason Why, Praise

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• [Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  People, Movement, Luther

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• As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Jobs, Talking, Lunch

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• Donald Trump is appealing to, that whole expression, everybody who asked me, why is Trump able to win in those 16 people? There's a whole expression. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I'm not very good at prognosticating but I would not be surprised if he's the nominee.

  Joe Biden

  Men, Winning, Land

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Buddhist, Book, Years

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I call myself "The Love King" in all aspects. Poetically speaking, in the bedroom, I love, and in social conflict.

  Raheem Devaughn

  Conflict, Bedroom, Social

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.

  John Lewis

  Book, Stories, Half

  "The Long March of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."

  John Lewis

  Fun, Book, Years

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!"

  John Lewis

  Drs, Radio, Get Involved

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.

  John Lewis

  Teacher, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith on MTV News' "The Stakes" podcast, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

  Andrew Aydin

  Dream, School, Knowing

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I blast "Northern Sky," by the Capital Kings, on the way there, but at the gym, I totally zone out.

  Gabby Douglas

  Sky, Way, Blast

  "Gabby Douglas Admits She's Klutzy". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 5, 2016.

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• It is our hope that when people read "March" - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.

  John Lewis

  Book, Two, People

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble.

  John Lewis

  Two, Drs, Way

  "John Lewis marches on: "Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America"". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 8, 2016.

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• One of our priorities when doing "March" is to sort of undo what we feel is the disservice done by what we call the Nine Words Problem. Which is that most American kids, whatever they do learn about the movement, especially in school, is usually limited to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream." And so there's sort of a layer of unreality; there's not a sense of continuity.

  Nate Powell

  Dream, School, Kids

  Source: www.salon.com

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• "March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who told me that it played an important role in the movement. And so once he told me about that, it made me start thinking, "Well, why doesn't John Lewis write his own comic book?".

  Andrew Aydin

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."

  Andrew Aydin

  Book, Writing, Long

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the fulfillment of Dr. [Martin Luther] King's dream, but it was a major down payment.

  Andrew Aydin

  Dream, Rights, Important

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Abdellatif [Laâbi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans were hungry, jobless and desperate. They also knew they were ruled by a paranoid king who was more comfortable with Parisian financiers than his own subjects.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Average, Students, Hungry

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.

  Keith Carradine

  Couple, Years, Roles

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2016.

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• How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

  Chris Matthews

  Hero, Kids, Knights

  "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011.

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