Ethel Waters Quotes
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
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Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
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You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.
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The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
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I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.
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Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted it to, doesn't mean the future can't be better than you ever imagined.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
