Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds.
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My nickname is Deb for people who really know me. But the only real nickname I've ever had was, my dad used to call me 'Ace.'
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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We have such a good time working together. It makes such a difference going to work every day for 14 hours and being able to hang out and have a good time.
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It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
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He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
