Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
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Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
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Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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Let's go dance under the elms:Step lively, young lassies.Let's go dance under the elms:Gallants, take up your pipes.
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If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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During my years at the synchrotron laboratory, I had become interested in the theory of quantum electrodynamics and had decided that what I would most like to do after completing my dissertation work was to probe the short-distance behavior of the electromagnetic interaction.
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I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.
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It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
