Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is well to mark closely their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and ausculation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.
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As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
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Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
