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.
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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.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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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.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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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.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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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.
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
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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.
