B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
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I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
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Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
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In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
