Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Know
  • Just
  • Wedding

• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Take
  • Normally

• The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Struggle

• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Hate
  • Violence

• I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Important
  • Society

• I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Look
  • Three
  • Jerusalem

• Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Suffering

• No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Band
  • Broken

• We have a large public that is very ignorant about world affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World

• The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Good
  • Experience

• My whole thing is I’m not into civilization as a whole. The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization . . .I think it needs to happen, but no one, not even me, really wants it to happen.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy

• I bust raps like the boys bust gat shit.

  

  Outkast

• My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Music
  • Family

• If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

  

  Angie Harmon

• I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

  

  Jane D. Hull
  • Children
  • High
  • Education

• I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • People
  • Why
  • Home

• My fantasy breakfast is just a really good egg scramble. Maybe I'll add a little feta, so, uh, obviously not totally dairy-free. Definitely some vegetables, maybe some really nice tortillas; something to make it like a Mexican-style breakfast. I just really love breakfast.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Good
  • Free
  • Nice

• Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Remember
  • Gift
  • Music Is