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 like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.
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And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
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I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.
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Some see risk as a reason not to try. Some see it as an obstacle to overcome. The risk is the same; to try or not depends on your perspective.
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One of the most extraordinary examples of adaptation to immaturity in contemporary American society today is how the word abusive has replaced the words nasty and objectionable.
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I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
