Maya Angelou Quotes
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
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What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
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I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I'm basically nocturnal.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
