Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
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Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!
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I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.
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Just breathing isn't living!
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To live is not breathing it is action.
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In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
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A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
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Love is everything for me. It's the way of life. It's the way of expressing and way of breathing for me.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven.
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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Seeing the small is called clarity.
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Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.
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People assumed we called the record 'Murray Street' because of its proximity to the World Trade Centre, but that wasn't it at all. Before the attacks, I had simply been walking around taking pictures of things, and I had this photograph of the street sign. We felt it was somewhat evocative and decided to use it on the back cover of the album.
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People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.
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A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.
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We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course Barack Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.
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You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
