Maya Angelou Quotes
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I love to be surprised.
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.
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I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.'
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I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
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The Bernie Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to stay home, that their vote doesn't count.
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Sending $300 to your grandma in Cuba doesn't change the dynamic with Castro.
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
