Maya Angelou Quotes

I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

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• I would like my kids to study well.

  

  Vijay
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Study

• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Water
  • Nothing
  • Flexible

• Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • House
  • Act

• I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Cooking

• I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Great
  • Past
  • Star

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Confident

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Find

• I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Language
  • Meaningful
  • Sounds

• I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Serious
  • Feel
  • Mad

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Different
  • You
  • See

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Care
  • Negative

• The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • American
  • Giving
  • Control

• If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Hate
  • Fall

• The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Real
  • Reality

• My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

  

  Deborah Sampson
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Ocean

• I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • God
  • Live
  • Thank