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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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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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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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
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It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.
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British comedy fans go crazy.
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For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.
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I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.
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It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
