The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. - Maya Angelou

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I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

Maya Angelou

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

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I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

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My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out to the universe and I can't really do much after that. I've never taken the steps to be "successful": I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. I've talked to people about it but I've never followed through because it gives me the creeps.

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I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

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She didnʹt know if she could carry on by herself, but then, she realized that if this wasnʹt a dream—and dear God, did it feel real—there was no magic ʺstopʺ in real life. If she couldnʹt deal with loneliness in a dream, she never would be able to while waking.

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