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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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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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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I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.
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You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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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.
