Maya Angelou Quotes

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

Maya Angelou

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• Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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  • Air
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• As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Person
  • Unique
  • Teen

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
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  • Failure

• Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Kids
  • City
  • Sports

• We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Real
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• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Children
  • Soul
  • inspirational

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
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• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Community
  • Action

• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hand

• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Tears

• I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • City
  • Kind
  • Amazing

• I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Always

• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

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  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Job
  • Know
  • Oil

• The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Explore

• I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Bad
  • Party
  • Assumption

• A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Time
  • Work
  • Focus

• That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.

  

  David Baker
  • Why
  • Garden

• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Say
  • Lemons