Maya Angelou Quotes
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
Quotes to Explore
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Women are sacred.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.
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“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.
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I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.
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The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.
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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
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I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
