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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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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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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We should all love animals.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.
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Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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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.
