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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Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.
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I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
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Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency.
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If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
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Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish
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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.
