Oprah Winfrey Quotes
When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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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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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
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In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
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Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.
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Gun violence is real. People don't come back.
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When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
