Maya Angelou Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
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I don't fear anything now.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.
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When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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What I think is important about essayists - about the essay, as opposed to a lot of personal writing that kind of finds its way into public view - is that the material really has to be presented in a processed way.
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Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
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I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
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In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
