Quote by Ethel Waters
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the ve

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence. – Ethel Waters

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In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live. – Ethel Waters

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I wanted to be with the kind of people Id grown up with, but you cant go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. – Ethel Waters

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We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. – Ethel Waters

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The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration. – Lindsey Graham

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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individuals intelligence or morality. – Christian Lous Lange

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? – John Keats

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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. – Charles Kettering

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The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. – Albert Einstein

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Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. – Richard M. Nixon

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Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. – Bhagavad Gita

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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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