Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.
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India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.
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We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
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I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.
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I've been in movement work since I was 16 years old. Black Lives Matter becomes an important part of the story, but it's not the only part of the story.
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Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
