Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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God is a geometrician.
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.
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Music is the center of my life.
