Oprah Winfrey Quotes
This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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I don't study; I create.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.
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Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.
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Some people ask, 'Why the word 'feminist'? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression 'human rights' is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.
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This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."
