Oprah Winfrey Quotes
All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.
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It would be peevish and ungracious after being taken to such a lovely supper in this Temple of Food, I know, but I am desperate to ask the question that begs to be posed: Just how fucking good can olive oil get?
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Any time and money spent on LNG is time and money not spent on renewable energy.
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You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.
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All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.
