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Maya Angelou has 789 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill.
— Marty Stern
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And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own…
— Kanye West
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Never sign a valentine with your own name.
— Charles Dickens
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That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.
— Michael Ventura
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I literally was famous before I knew my own name,
— Corey Feldman
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When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also…
— Matt Czuchry
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I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of…
— Jack White
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Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what…
— Jean Dubuffet
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I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday,
— Nelson DeMille
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on…
— L'Wren Scott
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At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.
— Maria Montessori
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So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
— Lewis Carroll
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