Etta James Quotes

When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

Etta James

• Church
• Sing
• Performing
• Cigarette
• Little Girl

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• A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Food
  • Know
  • Surroundings

• There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Nothing
  • Now
  • Without

• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Father
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • World
  • Way
  • Respect

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• Nothing should be noticed.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Should
  • Nothing
  • Noticed

• I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

  

  Tana French
  • Up
  • House
  • Reading

• It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Important
  • Women

• Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Shall

• I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Voice

• ...girls who had read Wittgenstein as high school baby-sitters were rejected because the school’s quota of abnormally intelligent students had already been filled that year.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • School
  • High
  • Baby

• A prize with money attached to it has a lot of prestige.

  

  Kevin Barry
  • Money

• Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.

  

  Alicia Machado
  • Men
  • Couple

• This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • She
  • Stop
  • Learning

• No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Life
  • True

• People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • People
  • Good

• We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

  

  Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Different
  • Alone
  • Dark

• The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Men

• I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.'

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Kids

• When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

  

  Etta James
  • Church
  • Sing
  • Performing