Maya Angelou Quotes
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.Maya Angelou
Quotes to Explore
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer -
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
Yves Chauvin -
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
Indira Gandhi -
My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
Ma Huateng
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel -
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
Manu Bennett -
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Karl A. Menninger -
Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
Narendra Modi -
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Ted Olson -
We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
Randy Newman -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
Orson F. Whitney -
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp -
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
J. B. Priestley -
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
Fiona Apple
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'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.
Jessica Clark -
I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
Rachel Nichols -
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.
Dacia Maraini -
So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
John Stuart Mill -
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
Maya Angelou