Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• Life Is Short

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• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I had to work with a psychiatrist.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Work
  • Had
  • Psychiatrist

• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • New York
  • Mirrors

• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Control
  • Morning

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Loved

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • World
  • Reading

• I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Ball
  • Middle
  • Chances

• A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Poet

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Father

• I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Want
  • House

• Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Think
  • Body

• Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Help
  • Me
  • Always

• I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • America
  • Past
  • Month

• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Sun

• I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Friends
  • College
  • Doing

• A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Brave
  • Devil

• All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Sensation
  • Appearances
  • Nagatio

• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.

  

  Joe Scarborough
  • People
  • Ugly

• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Strong

• Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • People
  • I Feel
  • Life Is Short