Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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It's those damn critics again.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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'Maury' and 'Jerry Springer' get so theatrical that it's hard to believe.
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
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My worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. I had that from 4th grade until freshman year in high school. I'm glad the pictures exist. I had great hair back then.
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When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.
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Of course whenever you make the playoffs it's an exciting time of year. All the past records go out the window, but at the same time it's a one-shot deal and you have to get it right the first time or else you have to go home for the summer. Every kids' dream is to make it to the state tournament. Our kids are no different from anybody else.
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If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.
