Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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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 am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
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Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.
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Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
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The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
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I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.
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All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
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I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!
