Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I would like to direct.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
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Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
