Bernice King Quotes
My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children - and all children - could grow up in a better nation and world.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children - and all children - could grow up in a better nation and world.
