Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
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I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.
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All of us have got to pay into a certain system, and what we're saying is it's 100% American that every American should be able to create, store and sell their own energy as they see fit. Let's decentralize energy. Let's democratize energy.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for.
