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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Actors were the first people to accept me.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.
Erma Bombeck
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I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
Jose Rizal
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Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.
Evo Morales
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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
