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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'


Maya Angelou

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A.M. HOMES As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, s...
C. JOYBELL C. With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
JULIAN CASABLANCAS I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says...
MAYA ANGELOU I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life ...
RON WHITE I feel very honored that I got a chance to work with Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey.
STANLEY CLARKE I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose ...
RON WHITE When life hands you lemonade, don't try to make lemons
VINCE GUTHRIE When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?"
HENRY ROLLINS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before...
AVICII When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade
DALE CARNEGIE People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt...
KANYE WEST Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a na...
MAYA ANGELOU I just do my work, try to do everything I can. I don't weigh in all offseason. I just try to get...
PABLO SANDOVAL When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to ma...
DOLLY PARTON I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or...
ERYKAH BADU I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La S...
MAYA ANGELOU What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
DAVID BOWIE When you make a TV show, they always say you're a guest in someone's home. Online, you'r...
JERRY SEINFELD My body doesn't have a lot of curves; I have small breasts, I don't have hips - so I'm n...
SARA SAMPAIO I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focu...
GINA RODRIGUEZ It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least yo...
GUY LAFLEUR Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and w...
CARRIE FISHER You need a little bit of tomato sauce, or a little bit of lemon juice, or both, to make it sour.
IRENE HORAJSKY Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how...
DIRK BENEDICT A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from m...
FETTY WAP The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta...
A. R. RAHMAN I don't try to lose weight. I don't try to do nothing. I just try to put in my work, feel be...
PABLO SANDOVAL It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou h...
MAYA ANGELOU I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bas...
DOUG HARVEY Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I...
MATT GROENING There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be t...
JUNIOR SEAU How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I&...
EMINEM We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men...
RAQUEL WELCH I try to shy away from playing cranky people, but if it's just a funny next-door neighbor or bus...
FRED WILLARD I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think ...
BRANDON STANTON I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt no...
ERYKAH BADU When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't wa...
J.K. SIMMONS I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to.
DAVID ARQUETTE I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there...
DAN COLEN I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music...
LUIS FONSI Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You...
NOLAN BUSHNELL I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too ...
BILLY CAMPBELL Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're goi...
SOPHIE TURNER I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.
JOSE ANDRES I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, '...
HANK AZARIA I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet...
DANIEL TOSH My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
PATRICK DEMPSEY Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfe...
BEN QUAYLE Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
UNSOURCED, MISATTRIBUTED TO MAYA ANGELOU If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from sc...
AFROJACK I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I am not gonna say that a guy's looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don't believ...
VALERIE AZLYNN I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be...
MATT HOLLIDAY Maya Angelo...
LENNIE GOODINGS If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a peopl...
LAURA OSNES When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you ...
CHRIS TUCKER I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone...
KIMBERLY SCHLAPMAN I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb...
KATE VOEGELE One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather ...
BRIAN ENO I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing ...
NICHOLAS HOULT I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems b...
JESSYE NORMAN You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - i...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccess...
MAYA ANGELOU It may sound cliched, but 'Strictly' is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to sta...
ANTON DU BEKE Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be...
BAM MARGERA Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out...
YVETTE NICOLE BROWN I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite o...
HELEN HUNT The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try ...
GROVER NORQUIST I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neuro...
GWEN STEFANI I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me...
EVE I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti...
ELLE FANNING I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfami...
TERRY O'QUINN When they give you lemons, you need to make lemonade. When they give you oranges, you need to make o...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And t...
MARTIN SCORSESE I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to b...
ERIC LADIN I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I'm cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on...
CORIN TUCKER I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as ...
SHABAZZ MUHAMMAD I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
LAPO ELKANN I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say, 'OK, now I'...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or ...
DIANE LANE My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her bac...
LISA GRAFF I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I...
ACE FREHLEY Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every w...
LIONEL MESSI Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end a...
NATSUKI TAKAYA I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I d...
JOHN CAUDWELL Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a vi...
JOHN FORSYTHE You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not e...
ROBERT CRUMB I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still...
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MAYA ANGELOU Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
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MAYA ANGELOU All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
MAYA ANGELOU We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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