Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
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Care-Charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,Relieve my languish, and restore the light;With dark forgetting of my care return.And let the day be time enough to mournThe shipwreck of my ill adventured youth
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The things are mighty few on earthThat wishes can attain.Whate'er we want of any worthWe've got to work to gain.
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The Antipods…were always ready to burst.
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The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.
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You never find virtuosity for its own sake.
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When you have a tough year or a year that didn't go the way you wanted it, especially the playoffs and all that and not being able to take advantage of our team and our talent on our team, you feel that. And whenever something is taken away from you like that, you definitely cherish it more.
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I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
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You can't value others until you value yourself.
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Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
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Me and my sisters all have such different body types.
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My life is just a never-ending work in progress.
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It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.
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Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.
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Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
