Oprah Winfrey Quotes
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.
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It’s in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it’s a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
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We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.
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The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.
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The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
