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 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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We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator.
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What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
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It has been wild, you know? I started out just putting a song that I made out on the Internet without being sure if anyone was going to like it, and it took me on tour around the world with Justin Bieber. It's been amazing!
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I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.
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I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.
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If you’re famous, I don’t — for the life of me — I don’t understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. Why on God’s green earth would you be on Twitter? Because first of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available, right?
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
