Maya Angelou Quotes

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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• I enjoy building more than managing.

  

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• Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

  

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• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

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• Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

  

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• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

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• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

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• There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

  

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• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

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• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

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• I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

  

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• William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

  

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

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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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• It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

  

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• Be original. That’s all that matters........Take inspiration from others, but always make something new.

  

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• America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

  

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• One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

  

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• There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

  

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• I like music and dancing.

  

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• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Child