"Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain."

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Source : "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

B. B. King

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“When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move; he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time.”
“Everyone had a forever.”
“But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.”
“Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.”
“We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.”
“If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own economic future, because China, Germany - they're making these [clean energy] investments. And I'm not going to cede those jobs of the future to those countries. I expect those new energy sources to be built right here in the United States.”
“Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.”

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