Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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I love pain. Love pain.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.
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We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.
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I've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with it, as you do as an 18-year-old, especially when you're in college.
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Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.
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I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.
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I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.
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I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.
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I don't change my style for anybody.
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Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the same. We must immediately stop this madness to safeguard our social pact, freedom, and identity.
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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.
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...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
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Nobody notices when things go right.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
