Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.
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I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
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I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.
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It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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...if the music stops and there's only the sound of the rainAll the hope and glory - All the sacrifice in vain(And) If love remains, though everything is lostWe will pay the price, but we will not count the cost - Bravado (1991)
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And I know how many DJ pools have grown and I know how DJing has grown in the overall, but that was the technical side of it to me. DJs were rolling around, looking for stuff to buy and looking to see what was in the store when they get there.
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I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
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I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is.
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I make my relationships at work.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
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It's nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you've done something good.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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It is processes that are important.
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The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
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If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.
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It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
