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Etta James Quotes

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

Etta James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1938 - January 20, 2012

Topics

Mother Me Song Think You Done

I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

Andrew Scott

Down Never Write Anything Note Plot

No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as possible into the efficiency of the Web-commerce world is going to make it faster to find those chemicals.

John Wilbanks

Knowledge Money World Making Money

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Alyson Stoner

Success People You Aim Over Because

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

Srikumar Rao

Life Good Thankful Day Grateful

My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn't have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Good Father Child Parents Me Others

I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Love Movies Director I Love John

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

Rodney Stark

Media One Thing Universities Thing

One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.

Marvin Sapp

Fool People Me Doing Acting Privacy

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Jay Alan Sekulow

Lawyer Legal Hour Could Private

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Dean Acheson

Cooperation United Nations United

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

Dean Jones

Nature Truth Culture Evil You See

I'm like an actor who obnoxiously says he doesn't watch his own TV show. It is extremely rare for me to read my own comics and have asked publishers to please stop sending them to me.

Christopher Priest

Me Stop Actor My Own Rare Own