Oprah Winfrey Quotes

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

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• I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.

  

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• Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
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• I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
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• If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!

  

  Magda Apanowicz
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• When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

  

  Valerie June
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• I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.

  

  Olly Murs
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• When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

  

  Danica McKellar
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• I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

  

  Fefe Dobson
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• There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  

  M. Ward
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• I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  

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• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
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• The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.

  

  Luke Evans
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• Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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• We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

  

  Mechai Viravaidya
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• With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

  

  Jim Rash
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• For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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