Maya Angelou Quotes
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I've worked a lot during the night. But I don't sleep in the day either.
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We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
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People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
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I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.
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At HBO, my leadership had to inspire and gain the respect of employees in a large company with over 100 external business relationships in dozens of countries.
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
