"Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me."

-- Maya Angelou

#Influence Quotes

“When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, ?Okay, choose.? Are you going to make yourself miserable or content? Are you going to visualize scarcity or abundance? Are you going to put yourself down for getting angry with your husband or are you simply going to notice what insecurity you were feeling at the time and discuss it with him? The choice is definitely yours. Pick the one that contributes most to your aliveness and growth.”
“I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.”
“Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”
“We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.”
“I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.”

Source : "Life and Lies of an Icon". Book by Richard Witts, 1995.
“Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.”
“For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.”

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