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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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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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 am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
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I'm pretty close to Miguel Cabrera. We are such different hitters, but at the same time, we're pretty close because we both like to hit the ball middle-away.
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Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
