Maya Angelou Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
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Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable.
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I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.
