Ethel Waters Quotes
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
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To live is to be hunted.
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.
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It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
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You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
