Maya Angelou Quotes
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
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The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
