B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.B. B. King
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
Ottessa Moshfegh -
Everyone romanticizes somebody.
Zooey Deschanel -
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller -
Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter -
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
Sam Waterston -
Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
Floyd Skloot
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
Ignatius of Antioch -
I'm not politically correct.
Kary Mullis -
Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
Edgar Ramirez -
My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow. I want to be just like him.'
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
There is more to life than show business.
Garry Marshall -
No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
Edmund Morgan
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo -
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Lance Armstrong -
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
Iris Chang -
I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
Bam Margera -
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
Inga Muscio -
Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
Daniel Cormier
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
Malcolm Turnbull -
I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.
James Carville -
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
Fat Joe -
Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
Bill Gates -
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King