Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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When I was pregnant, I was like, 'I'm pregnant, so I'm allowed to eat everything: bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I can have pizza for dessert.'
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The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
