B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. King
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
Iris Apfel
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
Macaulay Culkin
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
Ed Koch
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
Walter Mosley
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
Iman
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
Jack Osbourne
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
Patrice Leconte
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
Xavier Dolan
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
C. J. Box
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.
N. T. Wright
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I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
Doris Lessing
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Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
E. Stanley Jones
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. King
