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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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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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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The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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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.
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And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.
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We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
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I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
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People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.
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The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
