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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING
Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING
I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING
If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING
I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING
Patience is indispensable in the life of the Muslim.
NA'IMA B. ROBERT
When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist....
TREY PARKER
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
GILBERT PARKER
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin...
NATE PARKER
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&...
PARKER STEVENSON
In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off th...
PARKER YOUNG
I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high inten...
PARKER YOUNG
I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I pla...
PARKER YOUNG
Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables a...
PARKER YOUNG
I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, ...
PARKER YOUNG
I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philo...
PARKER YOUNG
I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I...
PARKER YOUNG
In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
PARKER STEVENSON
If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong...
PARKER STEVENSON
I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
PARKER STEVENSON
I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-c...
PARKER STEVENSON
I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
PARKER STEVENSON
I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
PARKER STEVENSON
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in...
PARKER STEVENSON
I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with pe...
PARKER STEVENSON
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say ...
PARKER STEVENSON
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that i...
PARKER STEVENSON
During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought t...
PARKER STEVENSON
The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it w...
PARKER STEVENSON
I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewe...
PARKER STEVENSON
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, ...
PARKER STEVENSON
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyon...
PARKER STEVENSON
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeas...
PARKER STEVENSON
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
PARKER STEVENSON
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initiall...
PARKER STEVENSON
California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style,...
PARKER STEVENSON
If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and...
PARKER STEVENSON
I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scr...
PARKER STEVENSON
I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
PARKER STEVENSON
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette...
PARKER STEVENSON