B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
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The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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Knock me I'll knock your face of, life’s a crazy bitch, Grace Jones.
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I really loved touring with my band, but it felt like we would spend a lot of time playing in empty rooms - empty clubs. We had some good successes, but it's so physically hard to load up a van and drive all day.
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I am usually a pacer. I go to the balcony to check the sight lines way up there, to check the sound system to see how the balance is.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep.
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I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.
