Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
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The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
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The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.
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Love is the only duty that we know.
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And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.
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I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.