Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.
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The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.
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What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.
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One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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I always like summer best
