B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. King
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
Cam
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
Jackie Evancho
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
Victoria Aveyard
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
Sam Altman
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
Nas
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
Kaitlin Olson
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl A. Menninger
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
Jack Dangermond
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
Jay Samit
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
Christopher Logue
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
Landon Donovan
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
Aaron Sorkin
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
Orson Welles
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. King