Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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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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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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Don't limit your audience.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
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I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?
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Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.
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A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.
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My response is that I love the church.
