Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.
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When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.
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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
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Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.
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So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
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Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over.
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
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I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.
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In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
