Bernice King Quotes

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Japanese
  • Companies
  • Lacking

• The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Goal

• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Yourself
  • Forgiveness

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Single
  • Author

• I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Health
  • Disappointed
  • Wars

• I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Energy
  • Feel
  • Young

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Game
  • Games

• I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Girl
  • Wrong
  • Choir

• Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Said
  • Now

• I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Want

• I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Death

• My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

  

  Liev Schreiber

• The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Father

• I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear... But there is a chance that something... will talk to me from the dark, so I have... to be prepared for that communication, which has happened.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Dark

• I've nothing against stay-at-home mums, but I love going to work, I love what I do and I wouldn't want to start resenting my home life if I was staying home 365 days a year.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

  

  Bernice King
  • Important
  • Father