Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.
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Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
