Etta James Quotes
What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.
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I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
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It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
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Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.
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Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.
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What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
