Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.
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I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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I hate exercising self-control.
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.
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I'm just human, I have faults like anyone.
