Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
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I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.
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Kindness can come from someone on Twitter, it can come from someone on the street, it can come from someone at work. Without kindness, I don't know what I would do. The greatest part of life is the simple things.
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If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.
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Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
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He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.
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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
