Ethel Waters Quotes

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Ethel Waters

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• Women drive box office.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Office
  • Box

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

  

  Randy Falco
  • You
  • More
  • Where

• I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Want
  • Just
  • Girlfriend

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • God
  • Church
  • Religious

• So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Long
  • Man
  • Impossible

• I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Prepare

• The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

  

  Ed Victor
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Life
  • Good
  • Evil

• The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Opportunity
  • Action
  • Language

• I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Unique

• China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • China

• He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Faith
  • Advice
  • Sound

• The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Beginning
  • Weird

• Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Power
  • Path

• I have this dream of directing. But as a child, I wanted to become a wrestler. Like, in childhood, we used to watch WWF; I was inspired by all of that. One of my favourite wrestlers was Rock, who has become an actor.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Dream
  • Rock
  • Childhood

• The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Moments
  • Childhood
  • Door

• Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Childhood
  • Influence
  • Drinking