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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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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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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Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.
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The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.
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I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.
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Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
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When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.
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I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story's coming from me.
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I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.
