Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.
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That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
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When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
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I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.
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I learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!
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I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.
