Maya Angelou Quotes
I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
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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'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
