Maya Angelou Quotes
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.
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It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'
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By the time I got to 'Silence of the Lambs,' I was madly in love with close-ups because I'm madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of 'Silence of the Lambs' is the story about two people fighting their way into each other's heads.
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Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
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Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.
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I am an Arsenal player and I don't think about anything else. I'm not going to say no to anybody, nor am I going to say yes to anybody. I did not say that I was going to leave Arsenal to go to Barcelona, because equally Barcelona doesn't want me.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
