Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes

The future is in good hands.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Picture

• So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Eyes

• As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Lucky
  • Very

• I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Body

• I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Community
  • Proud
  • Chinese

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Effort

• Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Time
  • Government
  • Better

• Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Good
  • Growing
  • Me

• When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Nice

• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Stop

• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Success
  • Quality

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• I've done it all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done

• I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • English
  • Journey
  • Speak

• I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Time
  • Work
  • Career

• The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Up
  • May
  • Past

• I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • World
  • Real
  • Home

• My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Hair
  • Hands
  • Down

• Technology and the Internet have created a new set of relationships. It's changed the social fabric of promotion: advertising, dating. Part of art world judgment, part of it, is based on people's statistics; their measure of financial value: of likes, of popularity. Data and technology are invading the traditional and classic set of criteria.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Technology
  • Internet
  • Relationships

• The future is in good hands.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Hands