Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
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We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
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I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.
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Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.
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People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
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Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
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The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
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At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.
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The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians
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If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.
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If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
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Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
