Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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The world needs some help.
Zac Brown Band -
You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
Wayne Dyer -
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
Saint Basil -
I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
Kari Matchett -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
Zara Larsson
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
Vanna Bonta -
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Tadao Ando -
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie -
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
W. D. Richter -
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Val Kilmer -
Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
Federica Mogherini
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Time was God's first creation.
Walter Lang -
We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
Warren Spector -
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
Iggy Pop -
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
Gabrielle Union
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How convenient if you could ring up Harrods and say ‘Please send along two good murderers, will you?’
Agatha Christie -
We have to change the mindset of our corporate leaders and, obviously, we have to raise the level of corporate governance.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
Ramez Naam -
The Babylonians had known about Pythagoras’s theorem centuries before Pythagoras was born.
Edith Hall -
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
Amanda Burton -
I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.