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Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
Thomas Malory
King
Out
Born
Anvil
Stone
England
Sword
I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.
Tim Burton
Good
Black
King
Saw
Frankenstein
Bad
King Kong
Bad Guys
Guys
Never
Kong
Were
Creature
Good Guys
Dr. King's last campaign was a labor struggle. Many people are aware that King was assassinated in Memphis in the spring of 1968. Less well-known is what drew him there: solidarity with city sanitation workers, who, without the benefit of union representation, were rising up to protest humiliating pay and deplorable working conditions.
Tom Perez
Struggle
People
King
Spring
Pay
Humiliating
Benefit
Solidarity
City
Memphis
Drew
Rising
Him
Protest
Without
Were
Conditions
Campaign
Up
Labor
Representation
Deplorable
Workers
Working
Sanitation
Less
Union
Who
Many
Aware
Dr
Last
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
Waylon Jennings
Music
Time
Me
People
King
Long
Long Time
Every
Once
See
About
More
Perform
Like
Well
Mountain
Want
While
Cut
Really
Who
Albums
'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
Harry Connick, Jr.
Christmas
Alone
Me
Song
King
Sung
Only
Perfect
Never
Performance
Like
Masterful
Because
Gotta
Leave
Sounds
Nat King Cole
Version
Just
Holidays
I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
Aaron Lazar
Life
Lion
Circle
King
He
Excited
Like
Sing
Him
Up
Lion King
Child
Just
Wanted
Held
My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
Aaron Neville
Mom
Fans
King
Big
Everything
Had
He
Nat King Cole
Were
Did
Dad
I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
Aaron Schock
Lion
Music
Learning
King
Older
Elton
John
Stuff
Like
Know
Got
His
Lion King
'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
Abi Morgan
King
Girl
King Lear
Meryl
Meryl Streep
Lear
Iron
Lady
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
Abigail Washburn
Me
Creative
Path
King
Down
Dream
Some
Martin
Martin Luther
Idea
Always
Trajectory
Sends
Speech
Luther
Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Character
King
Musician
Athlete
Physically
Like
Sing
Also
Because
Still
Nat King Cole
Trumpet
Fit
While
Again
Play
Incorporate
Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.
Adoniram Judson
Good
King
First
Atheism
Buddhist
Annihilation
Doctrines
Supreme
Disciples
His
Taught
Burma
After
Patronage
Apostle
King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.
Adrian Belew
Will
King
Crimson
King Crimson
Touring
Soon
Parts
Europe
The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazons had worshipped here, and the fabulously rich King Croesus built the original temple.
Adrienne Mayor
Great
World
Pride
King
Rich
Took
Seven
Worshipped
Ancient
Temple
Great Pride
Had
Built
Wonders
Original
Here
The Romans had chosen Pergamon to be the capital of their new province. But by 88 B.C., most of western Asia was allied with King Mithradates, who had taken over the royal palace in Pergamon for his own headquarters.
Adrienne Mayor
King
Own
Allied
Had
Taken
Over
New
Headquarters
Most
His
Province
Western
Romans
Asia
Capital
Who
Chosen
Palace
Royal
Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
Family
People
Strong
Political
King
Ruled
Rulers
Solid
Arabia
Between
Contract
Very
Stability
Social
Social Contract
Royal
Saudi
Royal Family
Saudi Arabia
Bondage
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
Al Sharpton
Commitment
King
Non-Violence
Passive
Used
Gandhi
Dr
Dr. King
Resistance
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Al Sharpton
King
Took
General
He
Principles
Another
Era
Place
Confronted
Things
Dr
Universal
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
Al Sharpton
Vision
King
Kin
Promoted
Some
Seems
Simply
His
Forgotten
Ignore
Chosen
Dr
Dr. King
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.
Alan Dershowitz
God
Secular
King
Moral
Tells
All-Powerful
Something
Merely
Make
Because
Does
Said
Doing
Command
Person
Us
Who
Believer
The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.
Alcee Hastings
World
Better
Will
King
Incredible
Those
Carry
Voice
Countless
Missed
She
Because
Undertaking
Affected
Scott
Who
Lives
Deeply
Her
At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.
Alex Berenson
Home
Queen
King
First
Distressed
Martha
Martha Stewart
Seem
Glance
Michael
Junk
Common
Might
Much
Bonds
The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
Alex Cox
Crime
King
Shakespeare
Greatest
Play
I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?
Alexander Koch
Love
People
Old
King
Reading
Starts
Books
Something
Small
Small Town
Stephen King
Weird
Feel
Town
Demonic
Up
America
Nostalgia
Grew
Happening
Happens
I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.
Alexis Arguello
Best
People
King
Way
Sign
Could
Doing
Lot
Sell
Don King
Them
Then
Fighters
Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' and Carole King's 'It's Too Late' are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every day. The melodies are timeless in the rock world, the lyrics are words that I need to say, and they need to be heard again.
Alice Ripley
Day
Every Day
Too Late
Words
World
King
Practice
Every
Too
Late
Lyrics
Say
Melodies
Examples
Songs
Road
Thunder
Rock
Am
Springsteen
Heard
Timeless
Again
Why
Need
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