Maya Angelou Quotes

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BitternessCancerAnythingObject

It's a privilege to act, and you have to protect and cherish it.

Jesse Metcalfe

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Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.

John Barry

YourselfPeopleControlFreeRich

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

Melissa Rosenberg

PeopleFlyYouLoseRulesNow

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

YourselfSomeoneYouJokeShare

I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them.

Michael Beasley

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There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

Stephen Hawking

UniverseNothingBiggerOlderThan

It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'

Roscoe Mitchell

GodWorldThoughtBetterDoingYou

I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.

Matt Bomer

LifeDressPeopleTreatNameSuits

Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.

Michael Robotham

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You must figure out where the money is coming from. Money won't come find you. There are a ton of genius technologists in the blockchain space, but the harder part is figuring out how to make money.

Brayton Williams

MoneySpaceGeniusYouFindOut

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

Allison Williams

LoveLaughComedySayListenSafe

The best thing I ever learned when I first started acting is that you audition, and then you forget about it when you walk out the door. Even when you have a callback, you can't bank on things until you actually book that job, or your heart will just be broken over and over again.

Allison Tolman

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