Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

• Freedom
• Excellence
• Classical Music

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

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Look

• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Courage
  • Act
  • React

• I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Think
  • Look

• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Up
  • Two
  • Looking

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• 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.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Life
  • Age
  • Pretty

• Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Alone
  • Decision
  • Victory

• California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Great
  • California

• Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Power
  • Value

• Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • War
  • Hero

• It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

  

  Dave Sim

• Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

  

  David Hackworth
  • World
  • Islamic

• In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.

  

  Janet Yellen

• Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

  

  Epictetus
  • Words
  • Silence
  • Rule

• No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Liar
  • Indignant

• The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Food
  • Products
  • Fat

• I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Freedom
  • Excellence
  • Classical Music