B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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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.
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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.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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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.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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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.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I do feel like plus-size fashion is changing, but it's slowly changing. It's not growing as fast as we would all like.
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When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
