Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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Since our inception, Youku Tudou as the leader in the multi-screen video space has helped transform how video and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.
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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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I have a biology degree, okay?
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.
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Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to.
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We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.
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If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
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My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.
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You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.
