Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
Gail Collins
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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.
Narendra Modi
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
Taylor Swift
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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.
Wallace Stevens
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Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
Yunus Emre
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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
Natsuo Kirino
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You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.
Jason Aaron
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A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
Zadie Smith
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I love to sing all kinds of music, but I know that my heart is for people to know God, and I want them to experience his love.
Lauren Daigle
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
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I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.
Marlon Wayans
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon