Ben E. King Quotes

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

Ben E. King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 28, 1938 - April 30, 2015

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I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

Johann Lamont

ChangePartyWantWayChangingOnly

I think anytime there's a big show on a network, people are also looking for what's the indie, stepchild version of this, the real DIY version?

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

PeopleLookingThinkRealBigShow

I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?

Robert Jeffress

LiveDayPeopleMindPresentNow

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

GreatArtWordsBookThreeWrite

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

Amanda Burton

WorkPeopleDoneNothingDespairUp

Ballet Beautiful has made my pregnancy a joy. I've avoided back pain and swelling by keeping my core strong and body moving.

Mary Helen Bowers

BeautifulPainJoyMovingStrong

I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values.

Michelle Malkin

ThinkValuesDownAdmirePersonal

Do you know who I would love to play? Morticia Addams - then I could use all that darkness to be funny.

Monica Bellucci

FunnyLoveDarknessYouPlayKnow

I particularly like the bookshops at National Parks and battlefields; they often have very unusual and helpful things.

Diana Gabaldon

HelpfulThingsUnusualLikeParks

Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

Douglas Adams

GoodPlaceMeetFriendlyEgalitarian

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

Anselm Kiefer

WorkArtSometimesUnderstandOut

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.

Wynton Marsalis

DepressionProgressWorldBetter

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