Oprah Winfrey Quotes
What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
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Effective institutions raise the benefits of cooperative solutions or the costs of defection, to use game theoretic terms.
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The reality is that in a tech environment that is 90 percent to 100 percent male, it's not super-encouraging for females to be successful. It's just a lot of things that contribute to that: things that people do or things that people say that they may not realize have unintended consequences.
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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
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As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
