Ethel Waters Quotes
I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
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Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.
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The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.
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I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.
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I have miles to go before I sleep...
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
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Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.
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Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
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Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.
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I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
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I love the Beatles.
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We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.
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I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
