Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.
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When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
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I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
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More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
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Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.
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Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.
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They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
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The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
