Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.
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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
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Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.
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J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été.
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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
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Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.
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The sword within the scabbard keep,And let mankind agree.
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Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: 'This time I will burn out all the animal; this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' After all, what is ten years? Men have been a hundred thousand in the making.
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I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.
