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.Maya Angelou
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Imelda Marcos -
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.
Edmund Morgan -
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.
Adam Jones -
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Oswald Chambers -
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?
Park Shin-hye -
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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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.
Halsey -
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
Tad Williams -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
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.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
Natalie Massenet -
I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
K. D. Lang
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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.
Larry King -
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.
Walter Jon Williams -
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence -
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Ovid -
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.
Malcolm McDowell -
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch
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I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
Brigitte Bardot -
With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.
Bellamy Young -
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.
Christopher Guest -
Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.
Rene Descartes -
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
Seamus Heaney -
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.
Maya Angelou