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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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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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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This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can.
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I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.
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The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
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When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we've had since about the 1930s. I don't blame the Internet for that - that would be ridiculous.
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In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
