Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
Dan Jenkins -
The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
Safra A. Catz -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
Quentin Tarantino -
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
Iris Johansen -
The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
T. R. Knight
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
Ignatius of Antioch -
The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
R. J. Cutler -
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
Yelawolf -
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
Karin Slaughter -
It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr -
I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
Adam Lambert
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
Erica Jong -
The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.
Norman Pearlstine -
He was an amazing guy, really. Totally himself. Totally unapologetic about having all these different sides of his personality that didn’t quite mesh. He didn’t care what people saw, and at that moment, the envy was so powerful, I wanted to punch him in the face.
Bill Konigsberg -
Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
Rachael Harris -
I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.
Noah Hathaway -
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.