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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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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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.
