Maya Angelou Quotes

If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

Jesse Ventura

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I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

Angelina Jolie

WorkPeopleMeBelieveFeelKnow

I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

Anita Shreve

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell

LifeHeartMenPastWhyMore

We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others.

Stephen Hopkins

MusicOthersSourceNoneSomeUse

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Mike Mills

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People see themselves on camera. They're ashamed of the things that they do, so they have a choice: Either they accept responsibility for it, or they blame the show for it. It's a human reaction.

Jon Taffer

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I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

Derek Jacobi

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Occasionally, I share advice, but most of my advice is based on my personal experience.

Delilah

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Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.

David Shields

GoodBestSwimmingSlowBackMissed

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Clarence Day

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