B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?
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I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you don't have to be on the matchmaking sites.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
