Maya Angelou Quotes
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.Maya Angelou
Quotes to Explore
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Kate Hudson -
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson -
It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
Tamra Davis
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen -
These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
Larry Flynt -
I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
Adam Garcia -
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
Salman Rushdie -
To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
J. G. Ballard -
The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
Yair Lapid
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I always work with 18 friends.
Ingmar Bergman -
There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
Jack Nicholson -
I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
Barry Lam -
I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
Ted Sarandos -
No gentleman ever has any money.
Oscar Wilde -
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
Vera Brittain
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There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.
Vincent Van Gogh -
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
Alan Alda -
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone -
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.
Martin Rees -
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou