Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.
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I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
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Puppetry's a lot harder than people realize, and it's particularly difficult doing a movie. You have this scene with all these puppets, and when something goes wrong, you've got to set the whole thing up to do it again. With people, you ask an actor to walk across the room a second or third time, and he does it. That's it.
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Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
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In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.
