Maya Angelou Quotes

I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

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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.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • Attitude

• 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.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Mind
  • Black

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Privilege
  • Serve
  • Honour

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Opinion
  • Assumptions

• 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.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Day
  • Teacher

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• 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.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Dream

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Song

• As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Difficult
  • Relationships

• 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.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Good
  • Important
  • Fall

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • True

• Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

  

  Brad Gilbert
  • Today

• The Glenn Beck Program, April 12, 2013. Edited, including omission of some non-germane remarks. YouTube

  

  Penn Jillette
  • April

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• It feels good, it feels like a badge of honor, honestly. Amongst the artists here, in California, that festival is such a big deal. People live and die for Coachella. So to be a part of it on such a big scale is really flattering, and I feel really lucky to be part of the community.

  

  Zella Day
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Popular
  • Strip Club