B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
B. B. King
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
F. Murray Abraham
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
Maggie Hassan
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
Quentin Tarantino
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
Kajal Aggarwal
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
F. E. Smith
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
Zainab Salbi
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
Garrison Keillor
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
Vendela Kirsebom
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
Vicki Lawrence
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
Canelo Alvarez
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
Yoko Ono
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
Yami Gautam
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I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.
John Lee Hancock
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At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.
George Gilder
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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.
Eddie Izzard
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People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.
John Frusciante
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I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.
John McAfee
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The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
B. B. King
