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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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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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.
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Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
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The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.