Maya Angelou Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.
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I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
