Etta James Quotes
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I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.
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I love oatmeal raisin cookies.
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She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.
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Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.
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I don't like looking back.
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I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.
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I will never get tired of making chocolate chip cookies. Never.
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I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies.
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Basically, I don't like anybody.
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What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.
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It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.
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People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.
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My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting.
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I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
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I got away from comedy because it wasn't being done in the way that I loved and the way that I could do it. It made me sad because I felt like it wasn't appreciated and no one was writing it so, 'I'll abandon it.
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All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.
