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B. B. King Quotes

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015

Topics

Small Guitar First Memphis Used

If you're on God's team, you can't lose.

God Team You Lose

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

People Inspire Think Thought Help

It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.

Alone Balance Speak Earth Wonderful

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

Steven Sinofsky

Moment Conversation Disruption Begins

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Attention Fullest Ecstasy Highest

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.

Best I Am Writing Book Reading Then

I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.

Painting You Sunday Serious Never

God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I'm 5'11", to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that.

God Great Talent Me Believe Skill

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

Mary Pope Osborne

Childhood War Saturday Games 1950s

I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

Time Art Me Think Serve Minute

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

Integrity Constitution Champions Will

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Teacher Pet School Smart Being Smart

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