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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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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Value is what you get.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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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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I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.
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The value of work, and of always learning something new, and what it takes to achieve excellence. I really believe in those things that you have to dedicate yourself and spend time, that excellence is elusive. It's a little maddening, to try to have that level of discipline in your life, and I don't succeed all the time. But I do try.
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Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
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My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
