Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life's bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues.
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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
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I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.
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I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.
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I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life's bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.
