Etta James Quotes
I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up.
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I like to travel by myself.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
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Where opportunities to expand trade and commerce exist, we will lead, and we will partner.
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There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.
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We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.
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What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.
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She's learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I'm most proud that she's improved her sportsmanship, her demeanor on the field. She's still working on leadership and that's improving.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.
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It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
