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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.
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Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
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Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
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How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to hit each other over the head with rocks and sticks. A primitive fury has been unleashed by a president who has no culture, who cannot read, and who wants to determine power and aggression.
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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.
