Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Surveys show that surveys never lie.
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
