Maya Angelou Quotes

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Great
  • Book

• I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Hungry
  • Victories
  • Defeats

• I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • May
  • Me
  • Crazy

• I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

  

  Verite
  • Business
  • Creative
  • Pay

• Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it'd be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Amazing
  • Care
  • Green

• All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Men

• When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

  

  Ellen Key
  • True
  • Nature
  • Society

• It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Financial

• He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Father
  • Today
  • Gangsta

• I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Writing

• It's an important thing for children to be able to make up their own words.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Up
  • Important
  • Children

• I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til the wee hours with the other ones who were asking the same things.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Door

• The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Art
  • Knowledge

• Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

  

  Dusty Baker
  • Help
  • Summer

• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • May
  • Enemy

• If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Light
  • Goal
  • Harmony

• Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

  

  Gerald C. Meyers
  • Hope
  • Answer
  • Fears

• Who's that little brunette?" Suzanne asked. "I hate little petite types. Gregory doesn't look right with someone petite. Little face, little hands, little dainty feet." "Big boobs," Beth said, glancing up.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Hate
  • Faces
  • Bigs

• I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.

  

  Shreya Ghoshal
  • God
  • Desires
  • Ask

• He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Influence
  • Slaves
  • Human Soul

• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Encounter
  • Defeats