Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

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• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

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• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  

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• I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.

  

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• If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

  

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• To me, my business is my life.

  

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• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

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• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  

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• The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

  

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• Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.

  

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• I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

  

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• The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

  

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• I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

  

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• As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.

  

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• You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

  

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• It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

  

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• Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.

  

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• The products I review are typically lent to me by their manufacturers for a few weeks or months. I return any products I am lent for review, except for items of minor value that companies typically don't want back. In the case of these items, I either discard them or give them away to charity.

  

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• My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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