Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

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• I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Travel
  • Lot
  • Speaking

• I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Working
  • Speaking
  • CIA

• I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Come
  • Speaking
  • Brazil

• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Inspiration
  • Philosophy
  • Adventure

• I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Girl
  • Natural

• Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Public
  • Street
  • Speaking

• I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • High
  • Black

• The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • Speaking

• I'm always honored to be speaking alongside Deepak Chopra.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Always
  • Speaking
  • Chopra

• Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Path
  • Compassion
  • Concern

• In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.

  

  Confucius
  • Meaning
  • Speaking
  • Convey

• Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Clever
  • Manner

• In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Manner
  • Disorder
  • Reduce

• All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Gifts
  • Speaking

• Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

  

  George Eliot
  • Wind
  • Speaking
  • Counsel

• In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Manner
  • Divine Providence
  • Public Station

• People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

  

  Sergei Bubka
  • People
  • Understand
  • Speaking

• The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking of you." Jack's smile deepened, and he threw the rose back at her so that it landed in her lap. Mimi tucked it behind her ear and fluttered her eyelashes appreciatively.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Thinking
  • Smile
  • Speaking

• What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Opinion
  • Forever
  • Religion

• People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Mean
  • Achievement

• A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• There aren't any moral victories.

  

  DeMarcus Ware
  • Moral
  • Victories
  • There

• I have a cultured manner of speaking.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Speaking
  • Manner