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 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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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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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.
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Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.
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We live in a big world. We are citizens of the world, and we make movies for everybody around the world. I think it's very important to understand what people's life experiences, good and bad, are.
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Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.
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I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.
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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.
