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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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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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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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.
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You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.
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I've done a lot of pictures that are ensemble, and I've not always liked the people I was working with, but that doesn't make any difference because you do the job, and often it turns out to be a great ensemble even if you didn't particularly really like anybody.
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It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.
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There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
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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.
