Bernice King Quotes

Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.

Bernice King

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Business
  • Leader

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Days
  • Straight
  • Seventeen

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Doing

• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Easy

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Food

• I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Talent

• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Proud
  • Always
  • Something

• That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Poetry
  • Understand
  • Profound

• Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Real
  • Job

• One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Without
  • Consequences

• Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Hair
  • Makeup
  • Learned

• Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Bad
  • History

• It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Bold
  • Felt
  • Fearless

• We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Hope

• Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Nature
  • Alone

• 'The Stepford Wives' was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was unsatisfying as a result because, as much as I loved parts of it, and I'm really proud of so much of it, the entire movie wasn't what I wanted it to be. It's my own fault; I didn't follow my instincts.

  

  Frank Oz
  • Movie
  • Proud

• I love modeling, and I missed fashion and my friends and family in fashion and the creativity that I'm able to express through it. I didn't feel I was getting enough of that through my acting.

  

  Amber Valletta
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Book

• Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.

  

  Bernice King
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Movie