Etta James Quotes

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music.

Etta James

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• I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Influence

• If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Job

• What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Man

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Work
  • School
  • Team

• We are all terminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Terminal

• What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • World
  • Art
  • Doing

• Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Control

• I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Up
  • Book
  • Reading

• I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Loved

• I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • May
  • Empathy

• I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Racism
  • Feminist

• For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Action

• There's something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Beautiful

• I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

  

  Beth Gutcheon
  • Book

• I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy - to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Good

• The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Up
  • Good
  • Art

• Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

  

  Maximilian Schell

• I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Live

• We are making music for people who can listen to what we are talking about, which is generally an emotional, real life feeling and relate it back to their own lives. There is something about the boundaries that need to be concise to be able to deliver that message.

  

  Neil Sanderson Three Days Grace
  • Life
  • Music
  • Talking

• The two things you can't fake are good food and good music.

  

  Etta James
  • Food
  • Fake
  • Good Music