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

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

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• When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Fight
  • Against

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Always

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Like
  • Rich
  • Relationships

• He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Future
  • Past
  • Right

• 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.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Great
  • Free
  • Foundation

• I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Flying

• Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Want
  • Best

• As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Challenge
  • Learn
  • Look

• When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • World
  • Women
  • Love

• It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Take
  • Studio

• I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

  

  Usher
  • Light
  • Vision

• If trouble is coming, don't turn your back, because that's when it's gonna stab. Best to meet it with a grin. That way, you can see what's coming.

  

  Andrew X. Pham
  • Trouble
  • Meet
  • Grin

• The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

  

  Caroline Myss

• I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong.

  

  Emmanuel Lubezki
  • Movie
  • Forest
  • Lit

• I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • Life
  • Important
  • Remember

• We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
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