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Maya Angelou Quotes

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Respect Great Moment Best Past You

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

Work Best Day Job Pride Three

People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.

Light People Congress Want Use

Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes our entire existence; it's not necessarily the big, dramatic events, although they do, too, of course.

Moments Events Existence Up Big

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

Matthew Morrison

You Perfect Person Play Want Cares

In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.

Education Value End Wealth New Way

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is.

Culture Stupid Still Heartless Our

Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known.

Me Thought Someone Nobody Now Out

At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.

Time Bike Living Ground Pretty Zero

Investors like to invest based on traction, so it's always better to raise money when you've got more traction than less.

Money Better You More Always Got

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don't know exactly what's going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what's inside of them without being part of them.

Jordan Peterson

Time Me Look I Can Know Kind

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

Experience You True Through Own

When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.

Good Fitness People Singing Advice

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