Etta James Quotes

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

Etta James

• My Life
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• Happiest

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• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Feeling

• I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Body
  • My Life

• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Boxing

• I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Win
  • My Life

• You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Doubt
  • Dead

• It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Life
  • Training
  • My Life

• I'm not going to doubt my life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • My Life

• I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Life
  • Time
  • American

• I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stupid

• We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Brother

• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Live
  • Book

• When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Guitar
  • Camera
  • Vintage

• I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Model

• When reason fails, the devil helps!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Reason
  • Helps
  • Fails

• People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it's slowly starting to pay off.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • People
  • Guy
  • Beginning

• I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

  

  Etta James
  • My Life
  • Dead
  • Happiest