Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
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Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
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I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
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Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
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I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
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I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo.
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I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
