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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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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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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I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.
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When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.
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Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.
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Some people feel like I'm arrogant. It's unfortunate, because people don't know my heart.
