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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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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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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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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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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It's really odd to be up close to an icon like Bruce Willis. You're used to seeing him on a screen, 50 feet tall. To think, 'Hmm, I'm taller than you are' is just weird.
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We need less perfect but more free films.
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Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'
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I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.
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Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
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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.
