Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
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We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.
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When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
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If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.
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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
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Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
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Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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If they take the time to do that, what they will see are officers who are human, who are overwhelmingly doing the right thing for the right reasons, and who are too often operating in communities-and facing challenges-most of us choose to drive around.
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The print-made split between head and heart is the trauma which affects Europe from Machiavelli till the present. (p. 193)
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One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
