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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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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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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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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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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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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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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In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
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Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
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What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.
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I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.
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I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
