Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!
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I love diamond jewellery on men, and pocket scarves, cravats, cufflinks. The trick is to throw it together so it's natural and not contrived. That's real style.
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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
