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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When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing. We had singing class and again, some of the other students would cry when I was singing, and I really didn't know why. I started to realize that there was something in the tone of my voice that was evocative for them.
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
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The gains mostly reflect expectations of more rate cuts in the months ahead.
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I think we underestimate the importance of kindness sometimes. We understand the power of just a little tiny bit of kindness. It could be the catalyst for something so important. Sometimes just a tiny little gesture or an acknowledgment can make all the difference in turning somebody's life around. I think it has a trickle down effect, when you pass on what you receive without even knowing it. We also underestimate our own power to make a difference with the decisions that we make, every day.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
