Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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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.
Nancy Gibbs -
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand -
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
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.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
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.
Zachary Taylor -
I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
Paddy Considine
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
Gary Numan -
Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
Gary Lineker -
We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Rand Paul -
Well, I'm a professional.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
Carine Roitfeld -
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.
Rachel Sklar
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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.
Tamara Tunie -
'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
T. B. Joshua -
Let me make one point about the hunger strike in the Maze prison. I want this to be utterly clear. There can be no political justification for murder or any other crime. The Government will never concede political status to the hunger strikers, or to any others convicted of criminal offences in the Province.
Margaret Thatcher -
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
Arabella Weir -
All I thought about when I was a kid was getting my guitar and entertaining people.
James Kenneth Price -
There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.
Amiri Baraka
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I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.
Kami Garcia -
Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.
Dalai Lama -
Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
Carlisle Floyd -
To the extent that trolley problem scenarios exist in the real world, AVs will make them rarer, not more frequent.
Karl Iagnemma -
In some ways, it's easier to recognize your power when you're calm and untroubled than when you're distressed. Search out your talent in quiet moments. Don't push too hard. You've done it once. You can do it again.
Brandon Mull -
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon