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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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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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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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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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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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
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The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.
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When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
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The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
