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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In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
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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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What kind of business world are we living in?
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Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.
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We should not rely on our feelings; we had to walk by faith and not by sight. If we preserve in the Lord, we always succeed.
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Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.
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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
