Bernice King Quotes
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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I couldn't get a job to save my life. That's why I wrote 'Road to Paloma.' That got into Sundance and got into that scene, and that's how I got the role in 'The Red Road.'
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The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
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I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.
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I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.
