Ethel Waters Quotes
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
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I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.
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I think there's a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.
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I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.
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I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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I'm not just saying this because I'm in the movie, but I really would recommend 'Secretariat.' It's fun, inspiring, and it's a great movie to take your little kids, brothers, sisters, or nieces and nephews to see that actually has real people in it and not animated characters.
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Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
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I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
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There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
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I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.
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Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.
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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.
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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
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I'm aware of what's missing from my life.
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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
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We try so hard to be happy that we end up missing the most important parts of our lives and destroying the very peace that we were seeking
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We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
