Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.
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They cannot stand alone against us,” Temujin said. “We will take them one by one.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
