Maya Angelou Quotes
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.
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Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I like children - fried.
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No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
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We like to invest in market leaders.
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Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
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And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.
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Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
