Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
Zubin Mehta -
When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
Ted Cruz -
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen -
I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
Jack Ma -
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
Tariq Ramadan
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz -
I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
Kate O'Mara -
As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
Talisa Soto -
I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
Sam Hunt -
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
Zach Roerig -
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
Carla Hall
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
This is America, not a banana republic.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
Larry Hagman -
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
Jack Kingston -
I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
Nate Torrence
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Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.
Peter Baynham -
Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
George Bernard Shaw -
I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
Xavi -
I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.
William O. Douglas -
Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.
David L. Katz -
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.