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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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I like mac and cheese.
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In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
