Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
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When you don't have a nine-to-five job, and you're with somebody who gets a tremendous amount of attention, it's not that you resent it - it's that you have all that extra time to think about it.
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You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.
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I never look in the rearview mirror.
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When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.
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I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.
