Nina Simone Quotes

The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.

Nina Simone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicPoliticsMeGenerationPlace

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

John le Carre

LifeMarriageLiveDailyHope

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

Robert Green Ingersoll

LieUniverseWillNeverAnything

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

Spike Jonze

MusicYouChangesInventionUseHow

The only place you can really find the confidence and the love for yourself is within you, so that has to be what carries you: not all of these external things.

Rumer Willis

LoveConfidenceYourselfYouFind

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

Ross Levinsohn

BusinessCareTake CareYouWall

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

Martin Van Buren

EvilResultMoreThanInhibition

My mum is deeply, deeply a man's woman, a man's muse. Maybe because I'm a kid from the '80s, I'm a bit more dominant. I wanted to be the muse and the director also. I wanted to be the man and the woman.

Lou Doillon

WomanManMoreDirectorKidMuse

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

Julia Roberts

GoodImpossibleThinkBackIntention

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

Jonathan Sacks

TechnologySpacePeopleFaceReal

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

Denis Villeneuve

CinemaIdeaLikeSpectacle

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Anne Dudley

WordsSoundVoicesInterestedReally

I am in the fortunate-enough position where I can be picky.

Allison Williams

I AmI CanPositionWherePickyAm

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