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On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.


Lewis B. Hershey

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B. B. KING When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
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.
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 Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I w...
MARY ANNE RADMACHER-HERSHEY I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
MEL B If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
B. TRAVEN Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight ...
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 -
Welcome wool sweaters.
B. CYBRILL I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I...
KATY B I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the peopl...
KATY B I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec...
RUTH B I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ...
RUTH B No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcom...
B. DODGE I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN Think positively, the way you think will describe you.
ABHIYANDA B. Be afraid, when you feel always fearless
ABHIYANDA B. My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B Don't try hard to explain, but try hard to prove it.
ABHIYANDA B.