B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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We want you to pay attention.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.
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I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.