Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.
