Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

• Freedom
• No Fear

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• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Serious
  • Enjoy

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• 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.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Time
  • Important
  • House

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Married
  • Morality
  • Ancestors

• I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movie
  • City
  • Weird

• 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.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Team
  • Positive

• We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings

• I worked in a comic shop for five years, and the amount of titles I could excitedly recommend to teenage girls was pretty abysmal for awhile.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Pretty

• When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.

  

  Joe Klein
  • College

• Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Good
  • Great
  • Night

• I studied classical percussion for ten years.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey

• All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

  

  bell hooks
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Art

• There are plenty of easy things that you can do from the comfort of your own home to get you started on the path of giving back.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Home
  • Giving
  • Path

• I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Important
  • Business
  • Service

• Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Great
  • Journey
  • Excellence

• I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Work
  • Truth
  • True

• I love Israel. It is an amazing place, and I'm incredibly lucky; it is one of the most interesting places in the world, and I've been lucky to find it.

  

  James Packer
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Always
  • Paper
  • Listens

• I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Freedom
  • No Fear