Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.
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We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.
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I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.
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Look for integrity, intelligence and energy.
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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
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But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
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In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.
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The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.
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Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.
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It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.
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With Lyft Line, we are matching two or more passengers who are heading the same way. That's how we're going deeper and are able to provide transportation for different kinds of trips.
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I don't do very well with extremes of any kind - extreme diets, extreme fitness - so moderation makes a lot of sense, and Hershey's has really great portion-friendly desserts to help people incorporate treats into their lifestyles so they don't feel like they're depriving themselves and are still living a balanced life.
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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.
