Oprah Winfrey Quotes
If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.
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There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.
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In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
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If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.
