Maya Angelou Quotes

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

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• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Environment
  • Better

• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Dad

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Family
  • Death
  • Couple

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Exercise

• I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • She
  • Truth

• The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decisions
  • Lead
  • Meetings

• There is no one true church.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • True
  • Church

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Attack
  • Worse

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

  Questlove
  • Know
  • Working
  • Greatest

• 'The Man Who Loved Children,' Christina Stead's masterpiece, remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Children
  • Book

• You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

  

  Michael Owen
  • People
  • Winning
  • Needs

• If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • Reality
  • Rude

• A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Gold

• In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • May
  • Poetry