Prior to my mother's stroke, Martin and I had a conversation with her. She felt at some point, [the center] may in fact end up with the government, but she never envisioned it in her lifetime.


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I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being ...
KAKI KING
I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, th...
KAKI KING
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
KAKI KING
Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
KAKI KING
I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get of...
KAKI KING
There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I&...
KAKI KING
Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I ch...
KAKI KING
We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, ei...
KAKI KING
You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence a...
KAKI KING
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON
Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!
STEVE KING
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING
If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think '...
KERRY KING
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING
Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it ...
LARRY KING
My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now...
LARRY KING
People would pay money to work at CNN.
LARRY KING
I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bon...
LARRY KING
I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions,...
LARRY KING
I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative ...
LARRY KING
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
LARRY KING
When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don...
LARRY KING
I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the ...
LARRY KING
I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jeal...
LARRY KING
I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hon...
LARRY KING
I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
LARRY KING
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through...
LARRY KING
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dan...
LARRY KING
You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you c...
LARRY KING
Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern j...
LARRY KING
I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.
LARRY KING
I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
LARRY KING
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
LARRY KING
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting bu...
LARRY KING
I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that ...
LARRY KING
It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an eas...
LARRY KING
I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
LARRY KING
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a pos...
RODNEY KING
I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart.
ELLE KING
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at s...
KING SOLOMON
I fantasized being a broadcaster.
LARRY KING
I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
EARL KING
I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
EARL KING
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I ...
EARL KING
If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kin...
EARL KING
I like to write a lot of satire.
EARL KING
I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to ...
GAYLE KING
If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING
I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr...
JAIME KING
In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.
KING VIDOR
secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING
Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING
My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING