Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
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When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.
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For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.
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India always inspires me.
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If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
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Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.
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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
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I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
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I might have faults but I'm not a big head.
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My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
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There are so many movies people make just to make money.
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Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.
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Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
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Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.
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I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.
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There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power.
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I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.
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Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
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I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.
