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Maya Angelou Quotes

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

Topics

Fire Anger Bitterness Clean Cancer

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Wife Sunday Young Being Piece About

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

Jennifer Granholm

Women Broken Push Encouragement Go

I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.

Executive Been Businessman Effective

The thing you want your kids to do most of all is succeed in life and be everything they can be. And if there's anything that may infringe on that, that may limit that, I don't want my kids doing it.

Loved Person Brains Loved Ones About

The AAU doesn't care about the athletes; why should I care about them?

Steve Prefontaine

Care Why Should Athletes About Them

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.

Michael Specter

Day People Breakfast Blame Diabetes

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.

Milton Friedman

Government Think Internet You Will

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

Manipulation Politicians Transparent

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

Business Talent Real Being Again

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

William Glasser

Education Good Teachers Room Little

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Humor People Seeing Never Tell Were

If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.

Wrinkles Think Talking You Fix Up

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