Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I hate competition.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
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Ch. 2 Relativity
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Why must everybody like you?
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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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My first celeb crush was Hanson. I loved all three of them. My sister and I would always fight, and whenever they would come on the TV, we would always give them a kiss on the TV. And I also had a crush on Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Every time he would come on the screen, he was like my boyfriend. I was such a nerd like that.
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Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Yet, it experienced a war (Revelation 12:7). How can there be a war in a perfect place and if it happened before why couldn't it happen again? Why would I want to go to a place in which war can occur? That's exactly what I'm trying to escape, aren't you?
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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
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Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
