Etta James Quotes

People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.

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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I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Jimmy Carter

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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Jim McKay

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I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.

John Grogan

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The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.

Steve Harvey

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I'm a bit of a nomad anyway, so I find it quite easy to settle in places very quickly.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

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My little brothers can ask me any question in the world, and if I've got the answer, I'm going to give it to them.

Stefon Diggs

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The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.

Ron Davies

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I get very few nasty letters. A few from people who disapprove of the fact that I'm getting naked on television yet again. I don't know why - I suppose they don't like the idea that I'm doing that while I'm married with children.

Rupert Penry-Jones

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Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

Ming-Na Wen

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The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

Lucretia Mott

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One of the first bills I helped passed was the Shore Protection Fund, which provides a stable source of funding for shore protection, something very important for Monmouth County and the entire Jersey Shore.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

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When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

Clarence Thomas

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