Maya Angelou Quotes
I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.
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I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.
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During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.
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What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
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I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
