Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only person I hurt is
myself?
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In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
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The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
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Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
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The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
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Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
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Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
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The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
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B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
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B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
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B. B. KING In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING A lot of people believe what other people say.
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B. B. KING I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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B. B. KING 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.
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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 I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
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MEL B If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
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B. WILBERFORCE There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
B. QUILLIAM When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
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RUTH B No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcom...
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B. TRAVEN Think positively, the way you think will describe you.
ABHIYANDA B. Be afraid, when you feel always fearless
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MEL B Don't try hard to explain, but try hard to prove it.
ABHIYANDA B. We lived in an age where fake is a must.
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Abyssal and buried
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B. BARMANBEK She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.
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JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
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JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN True love lasts forever.
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B. R. AMBEDKAR Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad an...
JOHN B. LARSON The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an...
T. B. JOSHUA We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would cho...
HENRY B. EYRING Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible econo...
LESTER B. PEARSON It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. WHITE The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. YEHOSHUA Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
T. B. JOSHUA After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if...
T. B. JOSHUA When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the...
T. B. JOSHUA As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as ...
T. B. JOSHUA There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
T. B. JOSHUA I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
T. B. JOSHUA Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
T. B. JOSHUA Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human lab...
T. B. JOSHUA I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His ...
T. B. JOSHUA Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which con...
T. B. JOSHUA That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about....
T. B. JOSHUA When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise...
T. B. JOSHUA The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave th...
T. B. JOSHUA Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or...
T. B. JOSHUA What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossin...
T. B. JOSHUA The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roo...
T. B. JOSHUA What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
T. B. JOSHUA When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity w...
T. B. JOSHUA There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. B...
T. B. JOSHUA Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
T. B. JOSHUA Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
T. B. JOSHUA Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are su...
T. B. JOSHUA The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of...
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a r...
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
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IDA B. WELLS The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
IDA B. WELLS There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
IDA B. WELLS The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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HAROLD B. LEE My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonem...
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J. B. PRITZKER