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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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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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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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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Latency is very important when you think about autonomous cars and things like that - 5G will really change the game, and I think will be another spike of growth in the wireless industry.
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I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.
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We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.
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The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
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Some people feel like I'm arrogant. It's unfortunate, because people don't know my heart.
