Maya Angelou Quotes
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.
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Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.
