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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Quotes to Explore
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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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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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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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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
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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.