B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.B. B. King
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein -
My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
Gabrielle Reece -
I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
Zoe Saldana -
I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
Maggie Rowe -
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
Babe Ruth -
There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
Karin Slaughter
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson -
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
V. S. Naipaul -
I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
Rafael Nadal -
I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
Lady Gaga -
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams -
Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
F. Murray Abraham
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I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
Daniel Ek -
But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
Malcolm Boyd -
I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
Samuel L. Jackson -
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
Earl Weaver -
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
Fabrizio Moreira -
I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
Kate DiCamillo
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei -
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
Maggie Smith -
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Queen Elizabeth II -
We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.
Barbara W. Winder -
If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.
Ursula Burns -
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
B. B. King