Maya Angelou Quotes
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.
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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
