Etta James Quotes

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

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• Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Business
  • Help

• My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Sometimes

• What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
  • Know
  • Better

• Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Bass
  • Bout
  • Treble

• People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • High
  • Challenges

• Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Brain

• Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Words
  • Tragedy

• Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • High
  • Everyday

• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Environment

• They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Remember

• I think Japans work really hard, and when they have a chance to listen to music, they just go crazy. And the Ramones would be a natural fit for Japan, because Japan invented the cartoon, and the Ramones, especially in Rock 'N' Roll High School, are very cartoonish. So it'd be a perfect group for them.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Work
  • Music
  • School

• A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Moving
  • Speed
  • Efficiency

• It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Inspiration
  • Artists
  • Rock And Roll

• It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

  

  Susan Lucci
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Speaking

• I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

  

  Etta James
  • Mean
  • Punks