Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
Rachel Sklar
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
Octavia Spencer
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
Caity Lotz
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
Tadashi Yanai
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
Daniel Barenboim
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You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.
Frankie J. Alvarez
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We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
H. P. Blavatsky
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You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.
J. P. Morgan
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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
John Shirley
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The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it's his motivation that makes him the character he is.
Kurt Busiek
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
