Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
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  • Doing

• I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

  

  Foster Friess
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• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Trying
  • Character
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• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
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• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
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• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Care
  • Body
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• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Bad
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• I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Teacher
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• After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Opinion
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• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Great
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• Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Imagination
  • Learn
  • See

• Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Learn
  • Satisfied
  • Accomplish

• The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
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  • Model
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• We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Urgency
  • Confronted

• Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Achievement
  • Birth
  • Minds

• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
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  • Marriage

• You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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