Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.
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Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.
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First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
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I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.
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Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
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I've got to be confident in all the pitches I'm throwing so I can throw anything in any count.
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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
