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Nina Simone Quotes

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003

Topics

Music Think Rap Music Rap Beat Just

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

Go Got Computer Near

I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.

Work History New York Gift End Look

Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Art Principles Write Hard

I am a very private person, but when you get recognized, it's an opportunity to make somebody's day.

Opportunity Day I Am You Person Get

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

Mercedes Lackey

Good People Fighting Die Go Out

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Business People Think You Look Dumb

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Work Best Pain I Am Best Work Am

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

Light American House Sugar Way Oil

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.

Health Responsibility Care Changes

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Positive Society Revolution Think

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

War World Humanity Evolving Force

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'

Work Home Great Parents Writing You

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