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Maya Angelou Quotes

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best American Worst Wonderful How

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

Myself Think Mean Question Office

I can't say I'm not guilty of age discrimination when it comes to animals. Like most people I've walked into a shelter more than a few times and a magnetic force has pulled me toward those fluffy little puppies in the corner cage.

Age People Me Discrimination Guilty

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

Andrew Sullivan

Good Politics Me Friends Good News

I could have beat Obama.

John Catsimatidis

Beat Could Obama

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

Today Church Christian Someone Right

Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.

Good Best Win Winner You Sometimes

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.

Funny Laughter People Conversation

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

You Party Know Kind Like Everybody

What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

Passion Loyalty Day Dedication Done

Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank slate and be willing to acknowledge what you don't know, and you'd be willing to think like a child, I think it'll help not only individuals but society at large.

Stephen J. Dubner

Child Society Think Decisions Help

A couple of my favorite actors are Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Wright, and, may he rest in peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. I've had an opportunity to see all of them onscreen and onstage.

Sterling K. Brown

Opportunity Peace Rest See May He

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

Age Faith Old Age Medical Insurance

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