Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I work very hard at my game.
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It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
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Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
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I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.
