Maya Angelou Quotes

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Own
  • Reach
  • My Own

• I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Cool
  • Son
  • Walking

• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• My main thing is music; it's what I do.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Thing
  • Main Thing

• I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Help
  • Think
  • Myself

• Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Man
  • Friend
  • Do The Right Thing

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Bad

• I have a strong affinity for animals.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Strong
  • Animals
  • Affinity

• Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Help
  • Government
  • Growth

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Fun
  • Person
  • Make

• I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • Going
  • Content

• As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?

  

  Andrew Shaffer
  • Depression
  • Writer
  • Output

• Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Alive
  • Stills
  • Beats

• A man's kiss is his signature.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Romantic
  • Kiss

• When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Black
  • Evil

• I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though you had the lowest of motives, when in fact, you were sincere?” “Precisely.” She gave a short, wry laugh and shook her head at him. “Convoluted sir! You are a maze.” He shot her a sulky glance. “I thought you were going to say I was amazing.” “That, too,” she admitted with a rueful smile, capturing his square chin between her fingertips.

  

  Gaelen Foley
  • Laughing
  • Pretending
  • Earnest

• I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Teacher