Bernice King Quotes

When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.

Bernice King

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• I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • High
  • Knowledge

• England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

  

  Xavi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Football

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • Good
  • Help

• I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friend
  • Singing
  • Red

• I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Cooking

• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Filmmaking

• It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Easier
  • Bills
  • Bitcoin

• I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very fortunate and understand how fortunate I am.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Show
  • Rejection
  • Fortunate

• Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Different
  • Know
  • Speak

• Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

  

  Olin Miller
  • High
  • Man
  • Rich

• 'It's a gift!' he said. He was referring to his art, and also to the result; but he was using the word quite literally.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Art

• Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Oh, no. Not me, not Marshall. You want to see Marshall? I'll show you Marshall! I tried to show you art, but you just pick it apart.

  

  Eminem
  • Art

• Omnium rerum domina, virtus. Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things. Therefore a nation that should never do wrong must necessarily govern the world. The might of virtue, the power of virtue, is not a very common topic, not so common as it should be.

  

  John Adams
  • World
  • Power

• Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Teacher
  • Smile
  • Lips

• Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • America

• As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Good
  • Children
  • Bad

• As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Men
  • War
  • Universe

• When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.

  

  Bernice King