Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
Walter Kirn
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
Zara Phillips
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
Rand Paul
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
Felix Frankfurter
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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
Wiz Khalifa
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There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
Jeffrey Bernard
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I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.
Donna Air
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Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
Katherine Parkinson
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When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.
Matt Prokop
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The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What I particularly admire in him is the firm stand he has taken, not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Albert Einstein
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Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
Satish Kumar
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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
