Maya Angelou Quotes
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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You know you have that zealousness of the young person that feels like you can go out and do it all. You know you save the world, save your gente, save women and before you know it if you try to do that you will burn out very quickly. My feeling is that I always think that and my advice to young people regardless of what times in these decades we've been living in there's always work to be done. The point is what can you do personally that you can live with so that you can get up the next morning and have the strength to start it all over again.
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In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'
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Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
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As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.
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Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.
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The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
