Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.
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Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.
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Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.
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Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.
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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
