Bernice King Quotes
We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll overtake us, and we'll self-destruct.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
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He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest.
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My wedding dress was featured by 'Vogue' and 'American Town and Country,' and from there, people started to come to us because they had seen that dress.
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We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll overtake us, and we'll self-destruct.
