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Maya Angelou Quotes

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Work You Say Why Try May

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Business Artist Possible Worst Lucky

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

Diet Important Modern Us Disease

In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.

Time Be Kind Experience Cake Kind

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

Darkness Me Principal Within Carry

How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.

Safety Gun Immigration Borders Open

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Mary Ritter Beard

Travel Surprise Nobody Go Meet Us

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Progress Forward You Country Vote

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Joshua Reynolds

Education Purpose Teachers Own Been

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Father Dreams Time Mind Political

I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times.

Silver Up Used Many Plus Played

My life has been wonderful. Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Christopher Walken

Life Think My Life Lucky Little

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.

I Am Seriously Marketplace Troubled

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