Maya Angelou Quotes

Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!

Maya Angelou

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• I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Health

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Bother

• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Good
  • Always
  • Struggle

• I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Professional
  • First
  • Him

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Health

• I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Trying
  • Days
  • Waste

• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Change
  • Husband

• I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Youth
  • Dollars

• You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • You
  • Find
  • Saying

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

  

  T.I.
  • Reality
  • Television

• I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.

  

  Martin Rees
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

  

  Chris Christie
  • Believe

• To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Trust

• I was training in an old garage - just a roof. And when its snowed, it would cover the floor, so I would have to clear this first. I didn't have a punch bag. There was no place to buy it, so I managed to get a speed ball, but it didn't have the swivel mechanism, so I just nailed it to the ceiling and started kicking.

  

  Mirko Cro Cop
  • Training
  • Would
  • Mechanism

• Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Believe
  • Fun