Maya Angelou Quotes
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
F. Gary Gray -
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban -
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley -
There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
Felicia Day -
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
Ian Hacking -
Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
Ted Deutch -
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava -
I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
Garth Ennis -
Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
M. J. Rose
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
Ed Miliband -
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
Barbara Corcoran -
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
Ice T -
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
Quavo Migos -
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
Yusuf Hamied
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch -
None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
Lady Gaga -
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government.
James Madison -
Every decision I make is, 'How is this helping me become a billionaire?'
Draymond Green -
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya Angelou