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.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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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.

  

  Laura Riding
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  • Poetry
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• There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

  

  Zane Grey
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  • Children
  • Force

• 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?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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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.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
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• Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

  

  Vijay Mallya
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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.

  

  Gary Goetzman
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• Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • 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.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Time
  • Day
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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.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• 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.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Father

• 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.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Job
  • Song

• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Long
  • Song
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• The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Corruption
  • Outside
  • Africa

• 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.

  

  Kate Spade
  • She
  • Mother
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
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• Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

  

  Anthony Sampson

• 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.

  

  Martin Lawrence
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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.

  

  Charles Evers
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• I think a lot of social media creators have always been, like, content and haven't pushed the limits because no one else had pushed the limits before. I say to myself, 'How can I create my own TV show online every day and actually make it a real production and put effort into it?'

  

  Jake Paul
  • Real
  • Effort

• I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.

  

  Alan Alda
  • May
  • Play
  • I Think

• Let me tell you about customs, James," said Lillian. "I am not accustomed to being summoned to someone else's home. You're very fortunate that I came." "I am indeed blessed," Dad told her. "I am also, by the way, called Jon." Lillian looked faintly surprised. "Are you?" "Really?" Dad asked. "Really? I was the only Asian guy who went to our school. I kind of stood out. While you are an identical twin, and I still managed to know your name.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • School
  • Home
  • Guy

• Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Home
  • I Think
  • Greed