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"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."
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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."
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"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."
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"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
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"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."
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"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."
Company
"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."
Now
"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
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"At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy."
Time
"I sing the songs that people need to hear."
People
"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."
People
"They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something."
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"It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them."
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"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
Mother
"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
Time
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