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"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
"It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles."
"There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!"
"A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence."
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
"When you live by understanding, you will not live in deception."
"See? my mother would say, smiling at me and my sister, Carol, in turn. "We live in the greatest country on earth. See how lucky we are?And yet the ash continued swirling down, and the smells of death came through the windows, crept under the door, hung in our carpets and curtains, and screamed of her lie.Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?These are the kinds of questions I ask myself now: in these dark, watery hours, when night and day are interchangeable. No. Not true."
Explore more quotes by Etta James
"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."
"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
"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."
"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."
"Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night."
"When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?"
"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."
"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."
"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."
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