Maya Angelou Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.
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I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.
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I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
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We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
