Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I choose to express myself.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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I live and die by puns.
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It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's not even that you feel that you're gonna do a good job, it's that you feel like you've found it. It fits, it's natural; it's like putting on a good shoe or something.
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My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.
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There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
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Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.
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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
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I think I was making a Stephen Fearing record, and I mentioned to someone that the Tragically Hip were talking to me about working with them. The Canadians in the room couldn't believe it, as if the Beatles were getting back together again and asking me to produce them. I have to say, as an American, it's different; they're not exactly a national treasure here.
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It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
