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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Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.
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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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A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.
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The concept of substance is the central tenet of Spinoza’s metaphysics. All things exist and are conceived through substance, or God, or nature, which exists and is conceived only through itself. Substance represents the singular binding force that connects things, no matter how small or disconnected in space and time they might be, for every thing participates in and is a part of a complex totality.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
