B. B. King Quotes

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

B. B. King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Jimmy Carter

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If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Jocko Willink

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In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.

John Glover

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Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

John Hawkes

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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

John Drinkwater

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The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

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You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

Jeb Bush

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I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.

John Sandford

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Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what's going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush's eight years were to this country.

Stephen Stills

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That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music.

Trombone Shorty

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My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger.

Jonny Weston

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When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.

Dinaw Mengestu

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