Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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God don't make no junk.
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.
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Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
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I love everybody that I work with, and we have so much fun.
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If it were not for the hope that a scientific study of men's social actions may lead, not necessarily directly or immediately, but at some time and in some way, to practical results in social improvement, not a few students of these actions would regard the time devoted to their study as time misspent. That is true of all social sciences, but especially true of economics. For economics "is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life"; and it is not in the ordinary business of life that mankind is most interesting or inspiring.
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I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
