Maya Angelou Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
