Maya Angelou Quotes
I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
Maya Angelou
Quotes to Explore
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
Pat Summitt
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
Tariq Ramadan
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
Imogen Poots
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
Nancy Reagan
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
Iggy Pop
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
Sam Trammell
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
Flann O'Brien
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
Joanne Rowling
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
Sam Heughan
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.
Dane Cook
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It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
Otto Schily
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I always take things step by step and match by match.
Victoria Azarenka
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As you get older, you get more... genealogical.
Jack Kerouac
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
Rachel Zoe
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
Yoko Ono
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In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.
Owen Wister
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I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.
Mike Leigh
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
T. E. Lawrence
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
Rumi
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In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.
Matthew Stewart
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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
Maya Angelou
