B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.
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Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.
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Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
