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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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.
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I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.
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Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
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There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
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I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.
