Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Great
  • Sin
  • Construction

• Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

  

  Orville Wright
  • Years
  • Discover
  • Secrets

• I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Beginning
  • Years
  • Beginnings

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• My whole life is a theater piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Theater
  • Life Is A

• I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Same
  • Hat

• I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Past
  • City
  • Band

• I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Different
  • Heart

• I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Job
  • Career
  • Ambitious

• Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Thought
  • Now
  • Independence

• With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

  

  Adam Green
  • Movie
  • Giving
  • Way

• Time found our tired love sleeping,And kissed away his breath;But what should we do weeping,Though light love sleep to death?We have drained his lips at leisure,Till there's not left to drainA single sob of pleasure,A single pulse of pain.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Time
  • Death
  • Light

• I look Asian. I need to go to Japan.

  

  Javier Camara

• Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Country
  • Truth

• Maybe one day, I will go to Pakistan and meet these fans who like me and my work. At the end of the day, we are all the same, and meeting my fans there is something that I have on my mind.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Work
  • Mind

• With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • She
  • Girlfriend

• I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Fun

• People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and we help and support each other.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Help
  • Community

• The best project is one that asks a novel question.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Question
  • Best
  • Project

• When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Help
  • Child
  • Gifted