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🇺🇸Maya Angelou

Literature

1928–2014

"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

"We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated."

"I think if you put a smile on people's faces, they give that back to you."

"Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far."

"French is the language that turns dirt into romance."

"You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy."

"It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate... I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination."

"Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning."

"Rose: But the world is full of Martha wannabes."

"I've always paid attention to religion … because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them — other than goat sacrificing."

"I wasn’t really a fan of kaiju, only Godzilla himself. He was my hero as a boy, and even now his roar has been my only ring tone any of the cell phones I have ever had."

"Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily."

"Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me."

"I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things — that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way."

"Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down."

"I had one normal job and I actually liked it. I worked at this place called Sparkles Cleaning Service and I cleaned houses. I was like 11. I can clean toilet bowls!"

"According to reports, Britney Spears has told family and close friends that she and her new husband Kevin Federline are expecting their first child. So far, no word on whether it will be a pimp or a ho."

"Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity."

"Well, aren't we all grateful to be alive? I just know lots of people … at my age, I've lost a lot of people in my life and I'm very grateful to be here. That's what I mean."

"Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me."

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🇺🇸Michelle Trachtenberg

Entertainment

1985–2025

"I feel that in order to truly be an actor, you have to differentiate yourself and your roles."

"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."

"Is the little girl gonna get shot in the face?!"

"There are some issues I'm more conservative on. As a parent, I'm concerned that there are so many young, young, young kids — like 12 years old — that are starting to have sex."

"Artists and actors of color have to alter and water ourselves down for Hollywood, but I refuse to be pacified."

"I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps , I said, "I'm going to try my hand at a female character." It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you"

"The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years."

"Today, the power of women rings a bit differently and you can feel the shift."

"You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings."

"I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new mobile phone every few months just because a new one comes out."

"'Less is more' my ass. I mean, 'less is more' on atmospheric movies. In ACTION/horror movies, more is more baby!"

"When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, "What's he doing hitting the government?"

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