B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes

When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Best

• I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Getting Older

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Difference
  • Second Place

• As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Career
  • Parents

• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Stage
  • Material

• Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Time
  • First
  • Programming

• I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Day
  • Play

• When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • City
  • College
  • Day

• I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Find
  • Watch
  • Addicted

• I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Live
  • Age
  • Driving

• When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Society
  • Picture

• If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• Jeff is a good leader, very competitive and focused. His spirit of innovation is a vital part of the present and the future of NBC Universal.

  

  Bob Wright
  • Leader
  • Innovation
  • Competitive

• Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Good
  • Evil

• Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Job
  • High

• Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

  

  Jerry Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Kids