Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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We have been investing in building a mobile-first selling capability by establishing the Consumer Channels Group to strengthen and align the device-selling motion and to expand our impact with OEM, retail channel partners and our operator channel, and by extending it with our opening of Microsoft Stores.
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If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
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I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Currently, my machines are black and sometimes gentle, if not sexy or exuding a contained violence; I finally found the technical means for accomplishing this.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners.
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I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
