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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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Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it…
— Tom Brady
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with…
— Maya Angelou
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I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then…
— Nicole Kidman
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After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people…
— Joe Meno
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Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this…
— Lindsey Vonn
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I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.
— Heidi Klum
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Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.
— Amy Dickinson
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I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
— Matt Dillon
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the…
— Imelda Marcos
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket…
— Gary Ross
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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was…
— Gary Ross
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I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
— Ilona Andrews
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