Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.
