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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The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They're signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.
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Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.
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I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
