Etta James Quotes
I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.
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We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
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The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.
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Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.
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Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.
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I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
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The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
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You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
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I started writing more with my voice in mind.
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My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.
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It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
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Curvy models are becoming more and more vocal about the isolating nature of the term 'plus-size.' We are calling ourselves what we want to be called - women, with shapes that are our own.
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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.
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I take things a little too seriously sometimes.
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I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.
