Maya Angelou Quotes
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
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I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
