B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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My first movie was with Mike Nichols.
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One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.
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It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.
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I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.
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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
