Ethel Waters Quotes
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank - I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry - for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
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There are so many kids out there that need to be adopted and need good homes. I definitely want to have my own but I also want to adopt for sure. I think it's very important to find these kids homes.
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This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?
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Whenever I Instagram or Vine something of myself, I like to go extreme and be crazy and silly.
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I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?
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My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
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The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.
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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
