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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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 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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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 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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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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.
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I'm not going to doubt my life.
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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.
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I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
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I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.
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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.
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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.
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I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
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Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.
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Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.
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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.
