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ROWLING More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's o... CAROL VORDERMAN Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN They were so outgoing. They were at the beach every weekend. They ran every day. DEAN HARRIS It used to be only the smartest students went to college; but as more people go to college, we have ... RONALD RANDALL While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means shoul... BOBBY SCOTT Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, shou... THOMAS PAINE We feel that students should remain in the school. We're very high on that and have consistently bee... ROBERTO REVELES These levees should have been expected to perform adequately at these levels if they had been design... 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DONNA WALKER Last night two Boston College students -- who were visiting students from Loyola University in New O... JACK DUNN Last night two Boston College students who were visiting students from Loyola University in New Orle... JACK DUNN What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cea... WINSTON CHURCHILL What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never ce... WINSTON CHURCHILL Many students have no familiarity with what engineers do, the types of jobs they hold, or the contri... BETH MCGRATH Students need to understand that they're doing precision guesswork. The end result should be that yo... LLOYD THACKER It's always been the college students. They are the presence within the movement. . . . We're the ne... ASHLEY GOFORTH There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world wh... 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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. B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ... 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'... B. B. KING When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ... 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