Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
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The most important effects of Christianity went out from it without the intention of the Church, or even against its will.
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I’m sorry... I’m sorry that Limbaugh is one sorry excuse for a human being.
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm, Yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new, In city and in forest they smiled like me and you, But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
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I'm very proudly European. I love that we have stories to tell of a place where we come from and we can relate to.
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I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ass as he completely turned his back on me.
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Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.
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It's rewarding riding into the sunset. What better way to go? My teammates carried me off the field - it doesn't get any better than that. Now it's time to be a dad. To be as successful at that as I was at baseball would be nice.
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Make a stir-fried rice dish with some cut-up chicken and any vegetables folded into the rice for a 'one pot' meal lunch that has it all - protein, starch and vegetables.
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When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.
