Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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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 actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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You never know how much time you have left.
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My life is pretty much an open book.
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I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.
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I will never work in a cubicle.
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It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
