Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
RaeLynn -
It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
Zac Brown Band -
It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
Baltasar Kormakur -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
Rainbow Rowell -
I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
Naturi Naughton 3LW
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
Imelda May -
A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
Natalie Imbruglia -
What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
Zach Gilford -
I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.
Yair Lapid
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I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
Rami Malek -
I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
Zadie Smith -
I'm sick of running away from things.
Natalia Kills -
Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
Hamid Karzai -
Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
Palmer Luckey -
I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.
Dakota Johnson
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I think it's very difficult, and people don't give enough credit to how hard it is to do in-game commentary. I'd have a lot of work to do, but I'd definitely be interested. I'm always interested in breaking down the game, and I'd love to see more females doing it.
Megan Rapinoe -
I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.
ASAP Rocky -
The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.
Joel Fuhrman -
There are some actors who see a show as something to do before going out.
John Tiffany -
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'
Frank Deford -
God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.