Ethel Waters Quotes

I am an isolationist.

Ethel Waters

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• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Effort
  • Optimistic

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • High
  • Myself

• Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Head
  • Pocket
  • Favorable

• I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Home
  • Summer
  • Down

• 'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Political
  • Question
  • Beginning

• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Done
  • Art
  • Doing

• The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Up
  • Important
  • Stop

• We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Live

• Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Single

• I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Mind

• Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Society
  • Progress

• I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.

  

  James Caan
  • Stupid

• People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.

  

  David Gower
  • People
  • Hand

• Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Music
  • Words

• Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

  

  James Mattis
  • Reading
  • Dark
  • Path

• I identify with the 99 per cent.

  

  Peter M. Brant

• But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Churches
  • Public Interest

• As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

  

  Will Durant
  • Poverty
  • Gods

• A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

  

  Warren Giles
  • New York
  • Papers
  • Headline

• Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • True
  • Stupid
  • Tired

• I am an isolationist.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Isolationist