Bernice King Quotes
Some people feel like I'm arrogant. It's unfortunate, because people don't know my heart.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.
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I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
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Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.
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Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.
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I love submarine movies.
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Some people feel like I'm arrogant. It's unfortunate, because people don't know my heart.
