Maya Angelou Quotes
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Coming from a Haitian-American home, I thought it was necessary to give back to the country in which my parents were raised. That is why I believe in Project PlayWorld's efforts to to provide secure playing spaces for the children of Haiti with the Live Civil Playground.
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It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?
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If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.
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A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.
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I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
