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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And even if he knew the answer, he would keep on doing this. because, the thing was, he loved her. he couldn't walk away if he wanted to.
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It's such a release to show yourself as not a charming person but just someone who is vulnerable.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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The cave room faced south, and that night I looked out from its frame on the moonlit talus below and the pines beyond and thought that whether Indian or White one was fortunate indeed to live for a time in a world of such beauty.
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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.
