Maya Angelou Quotes
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
Quotes to Explore
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
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I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
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I wanted the kids to enjoy the atmosphere. It was intense.
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The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.
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I think we are playing relatively good basketball. Tonight we were quick to the ball and did a good job on defense.
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I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
