Ben E. King
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If they have a necklace, they don't put on ... INES DE LA FRESSANGE MARIO ANDRETTI ALANA STEWART I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set. VANESSA PARADIS Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not... RHEA PERLMAN ANDY KINDLER BEN E. KING JANIS JOPLIN Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to... MARK MCGRATH Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't ... GEOFF DYER I've played 'The Wizard of Oz' for my kids, but by today's standards, it seems reall... CORIN TUCKER I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever ... VINCE MCMAHON In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don'... CHEECH MARIN MARY J. 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TABITHA KING Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. TABITHA KING In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe... TABITHA KING Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. TABITHA KING Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn&#... GAYLE KING I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota... KAKI KING Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the ... KAKI KING I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr... 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Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don'... 
Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get wo... 
I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigare... 
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on... 
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't h... 
Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced a... 
Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... 
Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they... 
Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-te... 
The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chi... 
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... 
That's all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. 'Cos women are powerfu... 
I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to... 
One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately... 
I've never had a celebrity crush! I don't believe in those, really. I feel like you have to ... 
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms n... 
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don'... 
Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in... 
No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, ... 
I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I d... 
Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoyi... 
I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never ... 
I don't worry about gaining weight. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to worry about ... 
I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I'm in a deli somewhere, an... 
We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked ... 
Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessa... 
Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don'... 
I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat as... 
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You don't wake up one morning and say, 'Today is going to be a comedy day.' And the next... 
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It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone... 
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There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they ... 
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Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. 
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive. 
He without fear is king of the world. 
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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 
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