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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It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.
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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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If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
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He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
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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.
