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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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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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 have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man’s average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time, while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.
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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
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We need a presidency which acts and protects us.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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.
