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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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
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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.
