B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I do remember the people who believed in me in the beginning. I'll never forget that.
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As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
