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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'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.
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Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.
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I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.
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Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that men and women are built differently. And while many will argue that women will only be allowed into combat arms units under the same requirements as their male counterparts, count me as skeptical.
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When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
