Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein -
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab Calloway -
I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
Flume -
We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
Pat Paulsen -
You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
S. C. Gwynne
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
Patrick Chappatte -
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
Abu Bakr -
Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
Ted Olson -
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
Abu Bakr -
Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
Taylor Hanson Hanson
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer -
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Patrick White -
I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy -
The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike -
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler
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Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
Hernan Cortes -
In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You've got to deal with the next stage of life. You've got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.
Benjamin Jealous -
My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.
Jennifer Aniston -
The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college.
Elif Batuman -
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.