Mary Frances Berry Quotes

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Mary Frances Berry

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• What you are comes to you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Choices
  • Human
  • Perspective

• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Birth
  • Union
  • African

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunities
  • Wherever

• Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • See
  • Intent

• My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Childhood
  • Inspiration
  • Poverty

• Let's be realistic – 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman. Not that I don't like female superheroes, but watching male superheroes gives me a high.

  

  Kajol
  • Like
  • Female
  • Realistic

• If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Work
  • Want

• I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Life
  • Working
  • Facebook

• Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Real
  • True
  • Nature

• Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God

• True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

  

  Karl Popper
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• We do not yet understand that when we neglect men, we rape women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• Whenever we are going through adversity, we should be able to overcome it, that's what kind of team we should be moving forward.

  

  Avery Bradley
  • Adversity
  • Overcome
  • Moving Forward

• In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Great
  • Idea
  • Credit

• Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It's a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Serious

• Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

  

  Mary Frances Berry