Maya Angelou Quotes
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I decided a long time ago to be unfiltered and wholly myself in these areas of social media. I've been very happy with the results of this decision. I feel that I get lots of interaction and loyal support. So I'm grateful for my Twitter and Facebook followers every day.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don't have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
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Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
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When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy of the past. And so it's something that needs to be reestablished.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
