Ethel Waters Quotes

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

Ethel Waters

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• If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Want

• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Work
  • Important
  • High

• I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.

  

  RaeLynn
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• People believe what they want to believe.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Pride

• Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • May
  • Want

• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Me
  • Television

• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Want
  • Government
  • Hands

• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Country
  • Want
  • Rest

• I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Model

• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Want
  • See
  • More

• Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • Day
  • Stage

• Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Want
  • Success
  • Me

• I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Think
  • Want
  • Star

• At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Family
  • Love
  • Hate

• I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Society
  • Lies

• My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Father
  • Want
  • Television

• The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Want
  • Polite

• It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • True
  • Government
  • Arts

• I think all the songs at Moth are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Want
  • Mean
  • Nasty