Etta James Quotes

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

Etta James

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• My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

  

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• Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

  

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• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

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• Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.

  

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• Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

  

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• Life should be great rather than long.

  

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• I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.

  

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• The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.

  

  Chuck Jones
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• I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
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• You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.

  

  Jim Jordan
  • Money
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• I feel like being a good model for my children is something that I do take seriously.

  

  Christy Turlington
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• Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.

  

  Alex Morgan
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• Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

  

  James E. Rogers
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• Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.

  

  James Turrell
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• If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

  

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• But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

  

  Anita Hill
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• Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities, and how much money they can make.

  

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• It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

  

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• The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.

  

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• There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

  

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• I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

  

  Betty Grable
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  • Girl
  • Dance

• I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.

  

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• See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

  

  Etta James
  • Dance
  • Fingers
  • Theatres