Maya Angelou Quotes
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
Quotes to Explore
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
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Chipotles to me are a one-of-a-kind pepper because they're smoked jalapenos, so they're fiery and they're smoky. It's good to use chipotles in salsas or soups or condiments - that works really well. To me, they always really pick up anything you put them in.
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I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith.
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I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.
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We make ourselves up as we go.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
