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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To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, "The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam," you'd say, "Okay, that's kind of conceivable." If you're talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.
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My biggest fear is the people I love not knowing how much I love them. I just want to remind people all the time.
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Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
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I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
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Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.
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Some people feel like I'm arrogant. It's unfortunate, because people don't know my heart.
