Maya Angelou Quotes
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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It's not so easy to forgive.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.
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I'm not even sure I like surgery, but I like what it does, I like the effects. I like to be able to give people longevity and quality of life, and I also think it's good for people to use the special gifts and talents that they have. And when I was in medical school, when I began to analyze the gifts and talents that I had, I realized that surgery would probably be a very good fit for me.
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I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
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The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.