Etta James Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt -
I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
D. B. Sweeney -
I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
Jack Lemmon -
There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
Rajiv Ouseph -
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
Kaskade
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
Patrick M. Byrne -
I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
G-Eazy -
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
Edmund White -
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
F. Sionil Jose -
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Orison Swett Marden -
People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
Cameron Crowe
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
Yoko Ono -
I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.
Salma Hayek -
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
Kate Winslet -
The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!
Edie Sedgwick -
Don't do drugs.
Eminem -
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Quintilian -
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
John Marshall -
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
Janet Flanner -
[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.
Gabriel Lippmann -
When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
Etta James