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

• 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

• 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

• 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 don't go to any of the big Academy parties while the show is on because, invariably, it turns to people watching me watch the host, and it's not comfortable. I watch at home and hope the show gets to be really good.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Learning
  • Moving
  • Dance

• The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Joy
  • Imagination

• I love the outdoors and looking at snakes, squirrels, bugs - just going through the woods and being part of it. You can smell the different trees. And I listen. There's so much you can learn by listening, by sitting and watching things happen.

  

  Boo Weekley
  • Different
  • Listening

• A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • Great
  • Home

• What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friends But they really your enemies, with secret indentities And disguises, to hide they true colors So just when you think you close enough to be brothers They wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin'.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Brother

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

  

  Bernice King