Maya Angelou Quotes
If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.
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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.
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I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.
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Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
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What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
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If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
