Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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The world needs some help.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
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My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
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Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other people and getting coached. But then I kind of stumbled into the right group of people that really started to create some unique music for me and what I wanted to say, so then it made me want to be an artist.
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I think people will be really shocked when they see this because people are used to eating portions that are so much bigger.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
