Maya Angelou Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.
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Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
