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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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.
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I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I myself have raised plenty of questions about Sarah Palin, much to the annoyance of the McCain campaign. But those questions have been about her qualifications and experience, never her appearance.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
