Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I love the Beatles.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
