Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth in the 21st-century economy, and our state has long been defined by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.
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The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
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You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
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You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
