"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."

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Etta James

#Years Quotes #Sitting Down Quotes #Used Quotes

“When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.”
“Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.”
“DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.”
“The shows are the main way our lives have changed.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.”
“It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.”
“I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.”

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