Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
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The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
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I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.
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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
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I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.
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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn't work with the overall narrative drive of the story.
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A man can make money but, money can't make a man.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
