"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity.……" — Maya Angelou
"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has 760 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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More Electricity Quotes
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and…
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
— Dave Barry
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what…
— Jeff Bezos
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last…
— David Bowie
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth…
— Bill Bryson
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none…
— James Buchan
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the…
— George W. Bush
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I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I…
— Jane Campion
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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
— George Carlin
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What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that…
— Ray Charles
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