Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

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• I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Want
  • Start
  • Aim

• We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Good
  • Think
  • Secretary

• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • World
  • Try

• It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Long
  • House
  • Woman

• You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Care
  • Baby

• I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Think
  • Like
  • Never

• If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Holiday

• Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Men
  • Loyal
  • Wives

• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • God

• ...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Future
  • Past

• All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Women
  • Country
  • Age

• Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People
  • Vision

• I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

  

  Eric Davis

• Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • True
  • Career

• I'm desperately trying to unplug. The last thing I want is a watch that connects to my phone which connects to my iPad that connects to my computer that airplays to my TV.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Trying

• When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People

• Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Career
  • Political
  • Immigration

• Donald Trump never tells you what he would do. Would he have started a war? Would he have bombed Iran? If he's going to criticize a deal that has been very successful in giving us access to Iranian facilities that we never had before, then he should tell us what his alternative would be.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Deal
  • Donald Trump
  • Iranian facilities

• The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

  

  Jo Bonner
  • World
  • September

• I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

  

  Kim Young-sam
  • World
  • Attention
  • Police

• You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. " Good question. Morbid, isn't it?" "What?" "Dreaming about dead peolpe. Creepy. You ever see a therapist about that?" "I'm not -" Even in dreams, I couldn't win an argument. Even when he was dead.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Why
  • Dream

• I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Dream
  • Show