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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No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach.
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Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
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Some people say how they'd like to live in different eras. Not me.
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I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him.
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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.
