Bernice King Quotes

The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.

Bernice King

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• I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Different
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Peace
  • Technology
  • Inspiration

• Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Space
  • Acting
  • Places

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Kid
  • Needed
  • Belong

• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Yourself
  • Talk

• There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Lot

• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Nation

• I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Taken
  • Thought

• I'm not a natural joiner.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Natural

• British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Chinese

• There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Fear

• Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Daily

• 'One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,' he says, 'is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Fall

• A tragedy for the party. He's got no ideas, no experience and no hope.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Party

• With massive arsenals still on hair-trigger alert, a global holocaust is just as possible now, through mistakes or misjudgments, as it was during the depths of the Cold War.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • War
  • Hair
  • Cold

• Usque adeo solus ferrum mortemque timereauri nescit amor.

  

  Lucan

• I did musicals. It's funny, because I can hide behind a character and a voice, but when I have to bring myself and my own voice to it, it's very nerve-wracking.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Character
  • Funny

• I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • Fall
  • Dark
  • Sleep

• Personal power is the ability to take action.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Power
  • Action

• Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • War
  • Peace
  • Propaganda

• The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.

  

  Bernice King