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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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.
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The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.
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As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
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Fighting in general, but especially when I was younger, was tough to deal with because there are so many external things going on that want to control you that most people have no clue about.
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
