Ethel Waters Quotes
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I've felt ugly and insecure.
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I always felt an outsider.
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Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.
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Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
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Ten years in this job is a really long time. These are tough assignments. I'm pleased I'm leaving in an amicable, civilized, mutually respectful way. Leslie felt it was time for a change and so did I.
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I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.
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My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
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A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective.
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There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.
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I have to allow his judgment. He felt like he could do that at that time.
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all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.
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With some of my previous relationships, they never really felt right even from the beginning but I persevered with them.
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The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.
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We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
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I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
