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.B. B. King
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
Tamera Mowry -
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 -
There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
Barton Gellman -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
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 -
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Otto von Bismarck -
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 -
If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
Rachel True -
Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
I don't mind playing spoiler.
Daniel Cormier
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We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.
Joan Lunden -
The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
Anne Wojcicki -
The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise.
Emil Cioran -
I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.
James Carville -
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren't required to do so.
Matt Gonzalez -
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