Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.

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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I shop more than most women.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
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People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.
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I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.
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I keep saying this: If you're not a feminist, you're a bad person.
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Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.