Maya Angelou Quotes
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
Viggo Mortensen -
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
Imre Lakatos -
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
A. B. Yehoshua -
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence -
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
Daniel Craig -
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
Ibrahim Rugova
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt -
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
Victor Cruz -
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino -
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
Wanda Sykes -
If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
Adam Cohen -
Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
Karen Salmansohn -
Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
W. Averell Harriman
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I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn't call him a non-pianist, because he's really a great pianist, but he doesn't feature it that much - he uses his keyboards and his piano technique to support his great songs and so forth, but he can really blow.
Chick Corea -
No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.
J. G. Stedman -
We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.
Franz von Papen -
Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.
Elizabeth Warren -
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou