Etta James Quotes
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.
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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
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I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
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I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
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No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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At the end of the day, it's up to me to get the job done but it's always nice to have someone to help you get through the tough week.
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TLC's always been sexy but always tasteful.
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Why these eyes without reading, but always ready to read? This mad will to be healed by the word when all sentences are only hiccups, shivers, sorry tics of the void?
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Art is to console those who are broken by life.
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In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going.
