Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I really feel gratitude every day in my life that I'm able to do what I love, and I think, because I have that passion and spirit, I've had success.
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If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.
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C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.
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It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom.
