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.

Maya Angelou

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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.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Technology

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Best
  • Books
  • Worst

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• 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.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Question
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Religion
  • Modernity

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Just
  • Read
  • Respond

• 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.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Aberjhani
  • True
  • Nature
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• 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.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • For Her

• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Doubt

• I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort sous la cendre.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Long

• Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Men
  • Art

• One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Education
  • Company
  • Manners

• 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.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Men