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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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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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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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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In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.
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That girl is shooting over 50 percent from the floor. ... Anyone who has watched greatness has to know this girl is getting it done.
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I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was like, "Oh, my god. Tom Hanks is calling me. This is amazing!" And then, of course, he was calling me to tell me that I was barely in the movie. But I'll never forget it - and this is why he's Tom Hanks, because he's got such a way with words.
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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Isn’t it strange how we always seem to remember the trivial things from our daily lives... yet we so often forget the most important ones?
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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.
