Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Need

• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Perfectionist

• I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Business
  • Help

• I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Art
  • Beach
  • Walk

• Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Experience

• I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Loved

• In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Dad
  • Born
  • Grass

• The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Country

• Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Done
  • Together
  • Friend

• I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Always
  • Never

• I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters

  

  Man Ray
  • American
  • Nature

• Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Death

• I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Long

• Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Color

• Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Bad

• I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.

  

  Doug TenNapel
  • World
  • Work
  • Different

• I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Music
  • Different
  • Done

• I'm not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I'll accept that. But I'm not a complete psychopath.

  

  Jocko Willink

• Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Drink
  • Birthday
  • Tonight

• I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Different
  • I Know
  • Don't Think