Maya Angelou Quotes
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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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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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
