Grace Dell Nichols (Nichelle Nichols) Quotes
I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
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I date, don't get me wrong. I'm not up here filing my fingernails on a Friday night. I want to find someone to share my life with.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace.
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‘She is a goddess,’ said Ambrose, drunkenly and stoutly. ‘…And she wants me. She’s the pursuer…She’s the epitome of woman, not,’ he said, ‘not a second-hand bundle of coy erogeneity draped,’ he said, ‘in an all-too-diaphanous robe,’ he said, ‘of pudeur.’
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If people see that I'm fully committed to my chosen charities and fully engaged in their issues, maybe they'll click a link to find out more.
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My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
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A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
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Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.
