Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
Fareed Zakaria
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
B. B. King
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
Rand Paul
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
Pat Paulsen
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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
Edmund Phelps
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If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
Gary Johnson
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I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.
Gary Shteyngart
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Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
Wendy Kopp
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I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!
Rachel Stevens
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
D. H. Lawrence
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Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
Linda Tripp
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When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
Victoria Principal
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The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.
Ann-Margret
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Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.
Thomas Nagel
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I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.
Andie MacDowell
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
