If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy.


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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into...
HANNAH SIMONE
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a sta...
SIMONE WEIL
I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.
SIMONE SIGNORET
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's question...
SIMONE SIGNORET
He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.
SIMONE SIGNORET
Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefor...
SIMONE SIGNORET
I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
SIMONE SIGNORET
You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.
SIMONE SIGNORET
Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET
Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
SIMONE SIGNORET
When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.
SIMONE SIGNORET
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
SIMONE SIGNORET
There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly h...
SIMONE SIGNORET
It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren...
HANNAH SIMONE
I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
HANNAH SIMONE
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people to...
SIMONE SIGNORET
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, ...
SIMONE WEIL
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEIL
If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
HANNAH SIMONE
You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out ...
SIMONE ELKELES
When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are p...
SIMONE ELKELES
Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way m...
SIMONE ELKELES
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b...
NINA SIMONE
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now...
NINA SIMONE
I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow."
"A back rub is harmless."
My eyes ro...
SIMONE ELKELES
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the worl...
NINA SIMONE
We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private."
"A smug expr...
SIMONE ELKELES
[Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the pat...
SIMONE ELKELES
I wish I could help you" I whisper.
You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, ...
SIMONE ELKELES
When I'm on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should.
NINA SIMONE
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life ...
NINA SIMONE
Humility is attentive patience.
SIMONE WEIL
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics ...
SIMONE WEIL
This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bough...
NINA SIMONE