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Nina Simone Quotes

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

Nina Simone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Music Sea Water Man Love Is

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

Jerry Harrison

Someone Want Kind Sound Producer

Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.

John Francis Daley

Writing Stupid Remember House Play

Here's my take: People watch sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, work, illness, financial worries. We don't need to be reminded of political divisions.

Jeanine Pirro

Work Sports People Political Need

As a nation, it's time to put politics aside and do the right thing to protect innocent little babies.

Stephen Fincher

Time Politics Do The Right Thing

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

Trofim Lysenko

Nature Knowledge Science Practice

When you work extra, you should be paid extra. That's what the Fair Labor Standards Act said. And I've met so many people who are working 60-70 hours a week, and they are effectively working 20 hours for free because they are making a little bit above the minimum wage, because the 2004 regulation enables employers to do that. That's not fair.

Tom Perez

Work People Free Week You Labor

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

Robin Leach

Life Work Food Travel Wine Italy

The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into it, and there are ways I think of doing this, and one of them is through the senses, through the sounds and the smells.

Ronald Frame

Funny Experience Welcome People You

The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them.

Masayoshi Son

Best World Energy Enough Engineers

Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.

Monique Roffey

Love People Speak Island Playful

I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good.

Julia Barr

Good I Am Makeup Christian Looks Am

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

Brad Dourif

Fun Have Fun You Know Try Out