Maya Angelou Quotes
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
Quotes to Explore
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
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But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.
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I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!
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I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.
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AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.
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As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.
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For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.
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The truest drive comes from doing what you love.
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We all have a limited amount of good judgment.
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Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
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I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
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You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.
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If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
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God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
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I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
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Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
