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.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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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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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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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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The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog.
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There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.
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I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.
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Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.
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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.
