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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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.
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Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
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People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
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The smell of shrimp is comforting.
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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.
