Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
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I'm addicted to travel.
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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
