Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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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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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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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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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
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When I was in my teens, I thought, 'Would I like to try and work hard at being an actor, or do I want to work hard at doing something musical?' Acting won out, but I do really enjoy those moments where I get to just belt something out.
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I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much; otherwise, I'd have an enormous boat. I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money; it's rather vulgar.
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If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.
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I always like summer best
