B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I will keep working hard!
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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Music is my release.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Go out in nature and breathe some fresh air. Let go of your worries. Feel the wind in your hair.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.
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What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
