Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
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There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
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We remember when women were spoken of differently. I don't mean that we didn't speak of women sexually - that happened. It was never this crude: there wasn't the connotations, the violence. I think there's got to be a relationship between the coarsening of the culture, of which pornography was a piece of the puzzle.
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Piaget, who was originally trained as a biologist, views intellectual development as an interaction of an inherited genetic program with the environment. It is no coincidence that he calls this conception 'genetic epistemology,' in effect the study of the hereditary unfolding of understanding.
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'Parava,' in my head, was always a film about children. And I was like, 'If I can be part of the film and help promote it in some way or the other, I'd be very happy.' I also did 'Ann Maria' because it was a story about kids.
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Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
