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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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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.

  

  Samuel Barnett
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  • She
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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.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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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.

  

  Tao Okamoto
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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.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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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.

  

  Ed Asner
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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.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
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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.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Dead
  • Russia
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• I choose to express myself.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Myself
  • Choose
  • Express

• I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Villains

• 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.

  

  Jackson Pollock
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  • Past
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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.

  

  Larry Craig
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• I live and die by puns.

  

  Feist
  • Live
  • Die
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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.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Good
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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.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

  

  Dan Quayle
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• Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

  

  Karlie Kloss
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  • Like
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• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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  • Box

• When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Women
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• There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Honesty

• Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• 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.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Working
  • Failures
  • Successes