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.
B. B. King
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Patricia Schroeder
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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.
Frances Beinecke
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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.
Lamar Alexander
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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.
Edmund Hillary
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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.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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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.
Kat Edmonson
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Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way
W. S. Merwin
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.
Aneurin Barnard
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By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
George Packer
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16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
Alan Perlis
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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