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

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

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• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  

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• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
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• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  

  Mae West
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• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
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• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
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• Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
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• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
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• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
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• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
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• Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

  

  Nate Parker
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• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

  

  Sam Kean
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• The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.

  

  Linda Hamilton
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• Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

  

  Ken Livingstone
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• To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, "The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam," you'd say, "Okay, that's kind of conceivable." If you're talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.

  

  Adam Richman
  • People
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• Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

  

  Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy
  • Relationship

• It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying