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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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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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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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
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I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
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It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
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I don't believe in eating throughout the day. I eat every four hours.
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Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.
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I was never motivated by money. I think above all else about the happiness of my family, regardless of money.
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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.