B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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Value is what you get.
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You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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'ACE' is one of the acronyms I've used over the years. It stands for 'Acting cures everything.' You weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day. Basically, how can you put something on display to the opponent that gives the appearance of 'OK, this guy is locked in today,' whether you are or not?
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Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color.
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This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
