"Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."

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Maya Angelou

“We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!”
“I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.”
“In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.”
“A tree root won't get into your sewer line unless there's something already wrong with your sewer line. I know most people don't want to hear that, but it's true”
“Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.”
“Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.”
“It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.”
“And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.”

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