Etta James Quotes

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

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• I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Never
  • Try
  • Research

• The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Boxing

• Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Real
  • Man
  • City

• Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Moment

• We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democracy
  • Worthless

• I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Coffee
  • Grandmother
  • Taste

• If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Game
  • Change
  • Revolution

• On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Lost

• I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Teaching
  • Without
  • Pity

• I choose to express myself.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Myself
  • Choose
  • Express

• Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

  

  Kamal Ahmed
  • Home
  • Joy
  • Colleagues

• No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Free
  • Ego
  • Actions

• I'm the third of five children.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Five
  • Third

• Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Work
  • Different
  • May

• I live and die by puns.

  

  Feist
  • Live
  • Die
  • Puns

• Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • More
  • Little
  • Absurd

• In fiction we say and recognize things about ourselves, which, for the sake of propriety, we ignore or don't talk about in reality.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Recognize

• I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Story
  • Working
  • Early

• The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Beautiful
  • Hair
  • Graves

• When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

  

  Etta James
  • Working
  • Apollo
  • Assassinated