B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.B. B. King
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
T. J. Miller -
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Dan Buettner -
After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
Yoko Ono -
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
Walter Reisch -
I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
Dana Perino -
Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
Waylon Jennings
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
Lady Gaga -
If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
Earl King -
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon -
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
Kate Christensen -
It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
Carla Gugino -
Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
Barry Silbert
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss -
In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
Parker Posey -
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
Walton Goggins -
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron -
I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
Tamsin Egerton -
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
Oliver Sacks
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Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
Victor Garber -
When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
Namie Amuro -
If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.
Rand Paul -
A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth - and joy. Make a 'career' of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you - and what you do 'for a living' makes you happy - you have found the best of all combinations.
Esther Hicks -
We’re from Germany but we grew up with English and American music which was such a strong inspiration for the young band. Very early on, in the Seventies, we went to England and France, to Japan and America, we toured and then became an international band. I think our music was never German, it’s always had this Anglo-American influence – we never tried to be a German band! We are Germans, yes, but not in our music. When we grew up, there was schlager music, this pop music kind of thing.
Klaus Meine Scorpions -
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
B. B. King