Bernice King Quotes
It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
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'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it.
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Those who are trying to remain healthy with HIV/AIDS are in the most vulnerable period of their lives; that's no time to leave them without access to care.
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You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.
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It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
