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.

  

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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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• 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
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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
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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
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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.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
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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.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Job
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• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

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

  Olusegun Obasanjo
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  • 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
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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
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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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• By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.

  

  Matthew Nable
  • Life
  • Time
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• I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people - brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.

  

  Daniel Hannan
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• General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
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• It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.

  

  Jasmila Zbanic
  • Important

• I'm like a conductor. I come up with ideas, and I get all these people to make great music together. I have a team of really talented assistant designers. I have architects in my office. People I trained from the beginning in menswear, womenswear, and home. I have a great team who know what I want and feel and translate that into beautiful results.

  

  John Rocha
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• 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