B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
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Man is an imagining being.
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People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.
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In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.
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I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
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I call The National my family, and I'll be doing that as long as I want to.
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I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
