Maya Angelou Quotes
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.
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I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.
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I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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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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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
