Maya Angelou Quotes
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.
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Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.
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Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
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If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
