Oprah Winfrey Quotes
This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
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Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.
