Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
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I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.
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You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?
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Girls always make our music go. They set the trends. It starts with the ladies.
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She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.
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They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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I definitely do weird things every show.
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Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
