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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.
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If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.
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The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'
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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.
