Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.

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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.
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Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it's amazing.
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I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.
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My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.