Maya Angelou Quotes

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

Maya Angelou

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• I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'

  

  Taye Diggs
  • I Love
  • Watching
  • Choreographer

• In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Reality
  • Intelligence

• I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

  

  Wally George
  • Different
  • Business
  • Kids

• I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Change
  • Thought

• In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Day
  • Summer
  • Year

• Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Mistake
  • Emotional

• Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Society

• India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • World
  • Money
  • Heart

• I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Life
  • Money
  • Culture

• I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

  

  Collis Potter Huntington
  • Country
  • Success

• I'm a black-and-white type of dude. If you say something, I believe you're gonna do it.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Believe
  • Black

• Actors devote a lot of our time and energy to the work that we do, but there shouldn't come a sense of entitlement from fans that we owe them every second of our lives.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Time
  • Work
  • Energy

• The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Moving

• When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • World
  • Growing
  • Health

• As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Important
  • Learning
  • Loyalty

• My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Success
  • Wife

• The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Management

• When we did protect him, we didn't convert our opportunities.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Opportunities
  • Protect

• At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

  

  Gerry Beckley America
  • Different
  • Nice
  • Band

• I get as much sleep as possible. When I get home, I have just enough energy to lay out my clothes and go to bed.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Sleep

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Fall In Love
  • Translate
  • African-American