Maya Angelou Quotes
I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
Maya Angelou
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
Sam Graves
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
J. Cole
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
Qandeel Baloch
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
Naomi Klein
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
Victoria Justice
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
Gary Lineker
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
B. J. Novak
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. Hinton
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
Warren Christopher
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
Yehuda Berg
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie
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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.
Madchen Amick
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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
Gabe Newell
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People don't want to treat their nannies subserviently. They don't want to act like bosses. And so nobody quite knows how to behave, and everyone is slightly pretending that the mother and nanny are 'equal' - when that's not the case. And pretending you are equal can make things complicated, even dangerous.
Leila Slimani
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You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
Lloyd Blankfein
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I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
Valentino Rossi
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I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
Victoria Abril
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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
Maya Angelou
