Ethel Waters Quotes

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

Ethel Waters

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• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

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• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  

  Ted Nelson
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• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
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• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

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• You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

  

  Jack Black
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• I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  

  Sam Smith
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• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

  

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• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
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  • Focus
  • Awesome

• The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Play
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• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
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• Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

  

  Warren Moon
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• This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Proud
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  • Big

• I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Why
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  • Go

• I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • I Can

• A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Help
  • Never
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• South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Art
  • Father
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• Love and despair go hand in hand.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Love
  • Hand
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• In the NBA, there's always a guy who is only around because he can jump. He doesn't have a clue about the fundamentals. I learn more from the WNBA. They know how to dribble, how to pivot, how to use the shot fake.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Guy
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• In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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  • Work
  • Job

• The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Job
  • Security
  • Well

• In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.

  

  David Weinberger
  • Age

• I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Job
  • Judging
  • Content