Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
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I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I always work with 18 friends.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
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With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
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If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.
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Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.
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The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
