Maya Angelou Quotes
It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Quotes to Explore
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.
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My family didn't have money, and I think it made me fearless. I'm willing to try everything and not be afraid because what's the worst that can be happen? It might not work out, but I can't be worse off than when I was a kid.
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I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.
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They were like an iceberg, it occurred to me, my father the seven-sights that was under the water and my mother the luminous portion riding the waves. But no, they were two icebergs: solitary phenomena, impressive, independent, known only to themselves. I felt their hidden seven-eighths inside me as a dark bulkiness whose outlines I was always trying to map.
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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
