Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
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The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
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Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
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I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.
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I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
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I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.
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It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
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The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'
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It felt like a new day.
