Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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I can paint in jail.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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We always trend set.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.
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When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
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I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log.
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The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
