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ETHEL WATERS I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the ...
ETHEL WATERS Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think n...
ETHEL WATERS It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
ETHEL WATERS We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
ETHEL WATERS Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious p...
ETHEL WATERS We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big ...
ETHEL WATERS When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and h...
ETHEL WATERS The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or mo...
ETHEL WATERS After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistlin...
ETHEL WATERS Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun ...
ETHEL WATERS New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever ...
ETHEL WATERS No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
ETHEL WATERS Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, w...
ETHEL WATERS Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit f...
ETHEL WATERS I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from h...
ETHEL WATERS Pinky.
ETHEL WATERS St. Louis Blues.
ETHEL WATERS You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job righ...
ETHEL WATERS There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
ETHEL WATERS Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire f...
ETHEL WATERS The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I...
ETHEL WATERS I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
ETHEL WATERS Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the mo...
ETHEL WATERS There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
ETHEL WATERS I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn...
ETHEL WATERS Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drink...
ETHEL WATERS My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
ETHEL WATERS Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
ETHEL WATERS I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
ETHEL WATERS All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
ETHEL WATERS I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and ...
ETHEL WATERS I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
ETHEL WATERS I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of v...
ETHEL MERMAN Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
ETHEL MERMAN You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no...
ETHEL MERMAN You grow up the first day you have your first good laugh-at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who...
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE The best time to make friends is before you need them.
ETHEL BARRYMORE When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
ETHEL BARRYMORE There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally...
ETHEL BARRYMORE We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
ETHEL BARRETT You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The food is unreal, it doesn't tast...
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grac...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Introspection! I hate it!
ETHEL KENNEDY Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a c...
ETHEL MERMAN Everything's coming up roses - for me.
ETHEL MERMAN At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I sto...
ETHEL MERMAN We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou...
ETHEL ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
ETHEL ANDRUS What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.
ETHEL ANDRUS Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind
ETHEL ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL ANDRUS Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
ETHEL MUMFORD God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL MUMFORD At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
ETHEL MERMAN I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole ...
ETHEL MERMAN I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair ...
ETHEL MERMAN We all must pay the price to be our genuine selves.
ETHEL RUSSELL None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.
ETHEL TURNER Ring of Fire, The Johnny Cash Musical Show
ETHEL BARRYMORE The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong t...
ETHEL BARRYMORE I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.
ETHEL MERMAN At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment,...
ETHEL ROSENBERG The World Is Your Balloon: The Decca Singles 1950-1951.
ETHEL MERMAN I take a breath when I have to.
ETHEL MERMAN Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
ETHEL MERMAN I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
ETHEL MERMAN You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best
ETHEL MERMAN It's saved many a guy from wives, girlfriends, whatever.
ETHEL SHATFORD The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Deep Are the Roots.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to Broadway.
ETHEL MERMAN I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here...
ETHEL MERMAN Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
ETHEL MERMAN But Not For Me.
ETHEL MERMAN I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my...
ETHEL MERMAN As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the a...
ETHEL MERMAN All the moms, and dads, and kids, and grandparents - everybody helps.
ETHEL GROSSMAN We have big serving lines in the kitchen. They fill your plate and they take it out, and you never k...
ETHEL GROSSMAN We order the meat [in advance] because it has to be kosher.
ETHEL GROSSMAN It used to be a buffet, but that would take forever now.
ETHEL GROSSMAN My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear ...
ETHEL MERMAN Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
ETHEL MERMAN When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
ETHEL MERMAN I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast...
ETHEL MERMAN Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in ...
ETHEL ROSENBERG A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
ETHEL WILSON It's a young man's game, a single man's game.
ETHEL SHATFORD Those Were the Good Old Days.
ETHEL ROSENBERG We are innocent... To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of l...
ETHEL ROSENBERG Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps ther...
ETHEL ROSENBERG Well, it was alleged that he was a member of the Communist Party.
ETHEL ROSENBERG I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.
ETHEL ROSENBERG The condition of my child was very poor.
ETHEL ROSENBERG I never heard any such conversation.
ETHEL ROSENBERG Behind every man who achieves success, Stands a mother, a wife and the IRS
ETHEL JACOBSON Kosher means clean. Kosher meat is butchered in a very special way so that the animal doesn't suffer...
ETHEL GROSSMAN It can be stressful - you listen to one sad, bad, situation - sometimes one after the other.
ETHEL FITZPATRICK Lots of time, you pray a lot and you cry a lot because you're hoping you're trying to do the right t...
ETHEL BUSSMAN There are people who come in who don't know what they would have done if they hadn't come in.
ETHEL BUSSMAN She heard through somebody else that I had experience, and I wasn't even looking for a job.
ETHEL BUSSMAN That's all there is; there isn't any more.
ETHEL BARRYMORE He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the...
ETHEL POCHOCKI You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to m...
ETHEL MERMAN Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
ETHEL MERMAN When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
ETHEL MERMAN Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
ETHEL MERMAN I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.
ETHEL MERMAN I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just bec...
ETHEL MERMAN I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it wa...
ETHEL MERMAN You gotta have a gimmick.
ETHEL MERMAN I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
ETHEL MERMAN The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, i...
ETHEL KENNEDY I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
ETHEL BARRYMORE That's all there is; there isn't any more.
ETHEL BARRYMORE When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the mid...
ROGER WATERS I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divor...
ROGER WATERS The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS Without obsession, life is nothing.
JOHN WATERS I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer becau...
SARAH WATERS When I first experienced the millennial response to me, I had come out of a classified briefing, and...
MAXINE WATERS My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. ...
JOHN WATERS When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th...
MARK WATERS I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
MUDDY WATERS So you think you can tell heaven from hell - blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a...
ROGER WATERS I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul...
ROGER WATERS Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy a...
JOHN WATERS Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling ...
SARAH WATERS Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who think...
JOHN WATERS I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. Th...
JOHN WATERS I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice t...
MAXINE WATERS My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then ne...
SARAH WATERS Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm tha...
JOHN WATERS I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, ...
MAXINE WATERS I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adu...
ALICE WATERS Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that ...
JOHN WATERS This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more ...
ALICE WATERS I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the...
ALICE WATERS I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it'...
MAXINE WATERS I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not ta...
CRYSTAL WATERS I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doin...
MAXINE WATERS I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides a...
ALICE WATERS Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me...
MUDDY WATERS Your heart—as you call it—and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. Th...
SARAH WATERS I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays l...
JOHN WATERS I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a...
MUDDY WATERS Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Ce...
JOHN WATERS My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a littl...
JOHN WATERS The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
ALICE WATERS I was fascinated by Leontyne Price for obvious reasons,
ANTHONY WATERS I have a commitment to developing young singers and exposing opera to a larger public,
ANTHONY WATERS When you can find somebody or something that relates to you and your experiences, it puts opera in a...
ANTHONY WATERS You're already doing better than what we did.
ANTHONY WATERS We didn't look at the schedule and try to figure wins and losses. Maybe nobody else believed, but we...
ANTHONY WATERS I'm pretty sure the atmosphere will be pretty much crazy around here. I think a lot of people will c...
ANTHONY WATERS I was fascinated by Leontyne Price — for obvious reasons,
ANTHONY WATERS It's still kind of hard on me at times. I sit down and think about it a lot. They tell me don't worr...
ANTHONY WATERS Leroy helped me out a lot from playing beside him last year, ... I used to pressure myself, and he w...
ANTHONY WATERS The first series of the game I heard his name like eight times, ... I was like, 'OK, I'm just going ...
ANTHONY WATERS Edna Lewis had the hands and soul of a great artist, and like all great artists, she had something o...
ALICE WATERS Papayas should never be refrigerated.
ALICE WATERS I think she's really up there at the top. It happens only when somebody is very non-compromising and...
ALICE WATERS I'm always going back to Elizabeth David. I continue to be a fan. I can read and reread and find som...
ALICE WATERS Every change ultimately is one for the better. You don't know how it is going to be. It is just shuf...
ALICE WATERS [In Berkeley, Waters was thrilled to have Charles draw attention to the Edible Schoolyard, her creat...
ALICE WATERS There aren't many big ideas about how to solve the problems,
ALICE WATERS Kids come into the classroom and it's very hands-on, ... Kids like this. After phys ed, it's their f...
ALICE WATERS She has influenced all of us.
ALICE WATERS I'm glad it's a woman. It can't be anything but encouraging to people to have someone at the top, pa...
ALICE WATERS I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and...
JOHN WATERS I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of peop...
MAXINE WATERS I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all moder...
ROGER WATERS I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn'...
MUDDY WATERS Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles...
ROGER WATERS First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in ...
ALICE WATERS In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years....
ALICE WATERS I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and t...
ALICE WATERS Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where m...
JOHN WATERS To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
ALICE WATERS I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But th...
JOHN WATERS I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really sus...
ALICE WATERS If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really pr...
ALICE WATERS The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American histo...
FRANK WATERS