Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes

There are things you stand up for because it’s right.

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• I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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  • Moment

• I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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  • Thought
  • Literature

• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

  Barbara Palvin
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  • Learned

• I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
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• There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  

  Mae West
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• I just write mechanical things.

  

  Barry Zito
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• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
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• I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.

  

  Usher
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• I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• I've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
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• There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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• Men are separated by so many petty things.

  

  Aaron Huey
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• There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Health
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• Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.

  

  Ian Hecox
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• The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
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• Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
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• I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the lyrics. If they get it wrong, it almost means more to me, because it's morphed into something that is meaningful to them.

  

  Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls
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• People first, then money, then things.

  

  Suze Orman
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• The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

  

  Samuel Smiles
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• There are things you stand up for because it’s right.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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