Etta James Quotes

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

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• I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Career
  • Suffering
  • Enjoy

• Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Different
  • Art
  • Death

• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Life
  • Try

• When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Same

• When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Feeling
  • Hair
  • Yourself

• The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • People
  • Life
  • Respect

• Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Stop

• And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Creative

• There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Women
  • Money
  • She

• I do support people eating more vegetables. It's a good thing to do.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• 'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Small
  • Forever

• I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Past

• I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Children

• It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.

  

  Martin Lel
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• If my eyebrows are cool, if my eyeliner is popping, if I'm moisturized, then I can pretty much wear whatever I want. I think if your hair and your face are together, I think it's pretty much polished!

  

  Kehlani
  • Together
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Black
  • Color

• If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Business
  • Father

• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sex
  • Dog
  • Leaving

• Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Done
  • Kids
  • Selfish

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life
  • Food

• One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Shows
  • Dressed
  • Favorites Things

• Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

  

  Etta James
  • Food
  • Riding
  • Dressed