Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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On my skin for the winter, I like Hydracid C20 cream by SVR.
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The producers of 'Mad Men,' you know, think I hate their show, which is true.
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BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE
