Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
Hamilton Jordan -
At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
Dan Stevens -
We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
Eddie Obeng -
It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
Vic Fuentes -
I played cello in my high school orchestra.
Eberhard Weber -
A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
Victoria Pendleton
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
C. S. Lewis -
I broke things to get attention.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
Vince Vaughn -
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
Yann Tiersen -
I don't plan my roles or my films.
Manju Warrier -
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Dan Quayle
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.
E. O. Wilson -
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Oscar Wilde -
The urge to get out and go it alone must be strong in most people, for the spirit of man answers to the blood of his ancestors.
R. M. Williams -
It is no accident that the Labour Party of 1964 should share this craving for autarchy, for economic self-sufficiency, with the pre-war Fascist regimes and the present-day Communist states. They are all at heart totalitarian.
Enoch Powell -
That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.
Bernard Barton
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Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer wrt lack of successful "conscious" music... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?
Vernon Reid -
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
Maggie Kuhn -
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
Hermann Hesse -
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon