Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.
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I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
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More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.
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At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.
