Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
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Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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Supposed former infatuation junkie, I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.
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Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
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I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.
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By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
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Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
