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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.

Nina Simone

It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Failure Start Success Time Work
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
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.
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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule

My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.

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