Maya Angelou Quotes
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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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.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
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Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
