Maya Angelou Quotes

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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GoodFriendMotherBusinessTrying

I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

Anders Hejlsberg

PeopleMeExpectTechReporting

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

Robert Novak

NobodyAdministrationColumnRejected

I am a business owner. I'm a teacher. I think Justin's actually kind of plain, kind of nerdy. But when I morph into Alyssa, I'm like this... Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn't be.

Alyssa Edwards

BusinessTeacherI AmThinkKind

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin

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I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed.

Mike Bidlo

WorkRelationshipTimeYourselfYou

I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.

Jason Chaffetz

DiversityWinFindPartyArgument

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

Jonathan Haidt

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If you look at the end of a roll of toilet paper, like the brown paper tube, I basically worked in a factory that made humongous ones like that - for concrete or anything you wanted to put in there. I was the guy who chopped those up into smaller pieces, put them in a box, throw it in a pallet, wrap it up, jump in a forklift and put it on a truck.

Demetrious Johnson

TruckEndYouLookJumpConcrete

When the Obama administration passed the net neutrality rules in 2015, even when we were winning, I favored trying to get these rules in a statute, because I feel that the best way to establish predictability for the marketplace is to make sure they're not subject to the whims of a partisan vote at the FCC.

Brian Schatz

BestWinningFeelTryingRulesVote

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

WarUglyLessonNothingNeverOnly

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

Philippa Gregory

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At 19, I felt like I was 40.

Prodigy

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