Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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• I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

  

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• I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

  

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• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

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• I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
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• On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

  

  M. J. Rose
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  • Help
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• I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Mad
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  • Blood

• To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

  

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  • Great
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• I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Movie
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• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Memory

• People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Mind
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• Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Up
  • Blood
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• Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.

  

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  • Hair
  • Red
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• With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Travel
  • Blood
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• Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Loss

• I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • Home
  • Space

• Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Blood
  • Exist

• You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • College
  • Clothes
  • Kid

• People always ask me if there was one thing they could do today to change the way they look and feel, what would it be. The answer is simple: Walk. To be exact, I want you to walk 10,000 steps a day.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • People
  • Walk
  • 10,000 steps

• Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Onions
  • Boiled

• And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

  

  Gavin Douglas
  • Time
  • Collectors
  • Explorers

• I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Blood
  • Memory
  • I Believe In