Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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I believe that what I am putting into my body is just as important as what I am putting on my body.
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I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
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I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.
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I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
