"I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be."

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Source : "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

Etta James

#Persons Quotes

“When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.”
“Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.”
“It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.”

Source : Sandra Postel (2014). “The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity”, p.184, Routledge
“such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.”
“I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”

Source : "The Doomslaye" by Ed Regis, www.wired.com. February 1, 1997.
“Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.”
“Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all the circumstance in our lives, we shall find that He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.”

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