Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
Wayne Newton -
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Malcolm Mclaren -
Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
D. B. Sweeney -
If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
Gary Lineker -
My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
Edgar Ramirez -
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
Immanuel Velikovsky
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
Cam Gigandet -
I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
Tara Strong -
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
Victoria Jackson -
Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
Kajol -
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
Barry Levinson -
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
Saina Nehwal -
I always had confidence in my game.
Zach LaVine -
I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
Kate Beckinsale -
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
Jack White The White Stripes -
At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
Dan Quinn -
It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
Rafael Nadal
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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
Albert Einstein -
...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein -
I think it was 37 years that I did music.
Barbara Mandrell -
When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am saying in terms of how I think I'm doing. I'm always searching for the truth of a subject or person, and I look at every meeting as a grand experiment.
Brian Grazer -
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.
David Blunkett -
There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.