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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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
