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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• 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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• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

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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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• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

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• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

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• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

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• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

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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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• George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.

  

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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.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family