Etta James Quotes
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
Baz Luhrmann -
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley -
Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
Park Shin-hye -
Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
Hans Jonas -
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Randy Schekman -
I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
Larry Kramer
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
Os Guinness -
When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.
Parker Posey -
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I'm very unorganized.
Taylor Momsen -
All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
Kate Moss -
Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
Olivier Dahan -
Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Queen Latifah -
I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
Oscar Robertson -
Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
Haim Ginott
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I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
Jay Parini -
I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.
Katherine Jenkins -
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy -
It feels so good to be happy.
Etta James