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B. B. King Quotes

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

B. B. King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Me Trying Attention Play Say

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.

Robert Kiyosaki

Good Business People Me Good People

Major League Baseball is doing everything to make the game as clean as possible.

Matt Cain

Baseball Game Doing Possible Clean

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

Ann Landers

Walk Kings Person Class Virtue Talk

I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.

Jeff Bridges

Love More Make Westerns Them I Love

I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.

Steve Daines

Perspective Experience Think Living

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

Sophocles

Enemies Mockery Sweetest Our Mock

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Ruth Negga

Art Think You Important Risk Really

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Love College Year Acting Again Some

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.

Michiel Huisman

School Growing Up Language American

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

Mitch Kapor

Enough Long Go Know Google Empires

If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth by dissing them.

Jason Reynolds

Growth Book Reading Someone Looks

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

Janis Karpinski

Intelligence Control Military Center