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Ethel Waters Quotes

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977

Topics

Me Want Affection Out Something

Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.

People Discrimination Bad Workforce

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friend Man Loved Long Say Useless

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Will Skeptical Novel

My mum is totally crazy for fashion still. Her job was as a laundress, but I loved it when she would dress up in her red suit with a mini jacket and flared trousers and get her wig fixed at the hairdresser's - it was the time of wigs - and we would go shopping.

Stefano Gabbana

Time Job Red Dress Crazy Fashion

I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.

Love Father Time Together Parents

I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.

Woman Me Think Sometimes Mean She

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Age World You Know Want Run

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

Juan Pablo Galavis

Respect People Opinions Okay Them

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Beauty Women Feet You Village China

To me, serving wasn't uncommon, and my service paled in comparison to so many of my friends who had done so much more. In my world - as a citizen soldier - I was surrounded by other soldiers just doing their jobs.

Service Me World Friends Doing Done

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

Get Even Religious Fanaticism Appeal

The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.

Colin Trevorrow

Best Together Lose Place Movies Why

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