Oprah Winfrey Quotes
This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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When you have 12 hours of storytelling, the cool thing about it is that you get to really leave people with question marks, but hopefully wanting to come back.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.
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This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.
