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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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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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I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.
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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.
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I want to live with all of my memories, even if they’re sad memories. I believe that if I stay strong, someday I’ll overcome the pain, and then I’ll be glad that I have those memories. I believe that there are no memories that are okay to forget.
