Etta James Quotes

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

Etta James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Marriage is wonderful.

Jennifer Aniston

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I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

Shinzo Abe

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My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

Tori Amos

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After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.

Tom Brokaw

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I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn.

Ross Perot, Jr.

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There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.

Johnny Vegas

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Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

David Tennant

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I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role.

Colin Firth

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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Chuck Yeager

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I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

Phoebe Philo

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Care work contributes enormously to the well-being of our societies and to the sustainability of our economies.

Sharan Burrow

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You have to look at how chemistry develops.

Tim Hardaway

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