Bernice King Quotes
In the end, I still have the same hope as my father - that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
Quotes to Explore
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic ways of life than to wear something that gives back to charity?
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.
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Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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In the end, I still have the same hope as my father - that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
