Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
Barbara Mikulski
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
Jack Lemmon
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
Gavin Newsom
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
Haile Gebrselassie
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
Oren Peli
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
T Bone Burnett
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Dana Carvey
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
Adam Petty
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It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.
Brian Helgeland
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The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed.
Gabrielle Roth
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When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.
Margaret Geller
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
Nancy Pearcey
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
