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B. B. King Quotes

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music Friends Three Without Planet

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

Respect Great Compassion Humility

I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!'

Work Cute People Painting Think You

A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.

Life Love Good Time Hate World

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.

Life Experience My Life Changed

I think most actors like to be liked.

Anjelica Huston

Think Like Most I Think Liked

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

Good Perspective People Ideas You

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

Silence Sound Need Days Songwriter

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

American Bad Nervous Talk Liver

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

Women Men Nothing More Rights Less

To me, the NWA is a thing of the past.

When a team has to work over a weekend, make a high priority of being there as well, even if it's just to stop by and buy them a meal to show your appreciation.

Work Appreciation Team Weekend Stop

I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

Me Doctor No Regrets Regrets Being

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