B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.B. B. King
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
Iain Duncan Smith -
I will keep working hard!
Yani Tseng -
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint Laurent -
I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
Ian Hecox -
Music is my release.
Ed Westwick -
I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
Jack Ma
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I was an expert horseman.
Harry Carey, Jr. -
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
Natasha Lyonne -
Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
Aaron Neville -
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
Ian Somerhalder
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
Daniel Drew -
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Larry Craig -
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
Nat King Cole -
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
Ban Ki-moon -
They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
Ted Lindsay -
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen
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Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!
David Hockney -
I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.
Vincent Piazza -
Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
Anthony Trollope -
You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
Felix Dennis -
L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.
Verne Troyer -
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
B. B. King