B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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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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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.
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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
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The onset of fear makes the simplest actions complex and difficult.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
