Etta James Quotes
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'
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On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.
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Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
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Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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The Lord called me to plant a church.
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Instagram is a blessing - I love to post about everything I'm doing. The explore page is magical.
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Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
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I think, when I wrote 'Children of Jihad,' I wrote it with a very optimistic view of what technology can do. Today I maintain that optimistic view, but I'm also aware of the challenges we have. So I would say I'm not a techno-utopian, but I'm a techno-pragmatist.
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
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Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
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My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
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I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.
