Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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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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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
Zac Goldsmith
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
Magnus Larsson
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Ian Mcewan
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I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.
María Concepción Balboa Buika
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I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
Bruce Beresford
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I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.
Cynthia Ozick
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
R. D. Laing
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.