Etta James Quotes

You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her expletive whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.

Etta James

• Singing
• President
• Inauguration
• Whoop

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• Isolationism is over.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Over
  • Isolationism

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Me
  • Drug
  • Dangerous

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Learn
  • Better
  • Than

• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Children
  • Why
  • Still

• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Strong
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Always

• I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Know

• In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • Alone
  • Design

• I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Down
  • Step
  • Seriously

• I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Man
  • Hotel
  • Heartbreak

• I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Baseball
  • Born
  • I Can

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Only
  • Tactics

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Soul
  • Lost
  • Authenticity

• Any joke can be funny, but not any joke is funny. Any joke has the potential to be hilarious to you, but more importantly, the joke has the potential to not be funny to you but to someone else.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Funny
  • Hilarious

• I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

  

  Gloria Gaynor
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Relationship

• All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.

  

  Gary Catona
  • People
  • Trying
  • Exercise

• They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse.

  

  Lisa Whelchel

• I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances. It was therapy sessions for someone who couldn't afford to go to therapy, a way to release my frustration, my inhibition. When I was little, growing up in an abusive household, I felt like I didn't have a voice. Suddenly I was on stage and people were watching me and listening to me, so even if I was singing about something that didn't have to do with abuse, when I was on stage I could express all of the anger, the rage.

  

  Alice Bag
  • People
  • Singing
  • Listening

• You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her expletive whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.

  

  Etta James
  • Singing
  • President
  • Inauguration