Maya Angelou Quotes
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
Quotes to Explore
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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House music is like going to church - it touches you. There's something really magical about it that pulls you in, and you just want to keep learning more about it.
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Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
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Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.
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What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.
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Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
