Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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All of the people are the dependents of Allah.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
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I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
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Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.
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We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
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To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.
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Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.
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You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
