Maya Angelou Quotes
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.
Quotes to Explore
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
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The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.
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In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
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Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.
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A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.
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There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.
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I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.' I'm going to keep writing them, and hopefully people will start making them.
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I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.
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You must suggest to me reality - you can never show me reality.
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I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it was cooler to be jaded than to be careful with other people.
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Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.
