Maya Angelou Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I like helping other writers who don't know what to do or where to go in New York.
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Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
