Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
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I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.
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I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.
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The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.
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As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.
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For to bear all naked truths,And to envisage circumstance, all calm,That is the top of sovereignty.
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Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
