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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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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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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Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?'
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Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.
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I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.
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All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.
