Maya Angelou Quotes
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'm a fast writer.
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There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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It's time to penetrate and find somebody else if that's not the shot you're making or you're comfortable with. You have to know that.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.