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.
Walter Pater -
It's those damn critics again.
Irwin Shaw -
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler -
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky -
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Karen Armstrong -
The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
Rafael dos Anjos -
In life go straight and turn right.
Salman Khan -
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier -
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
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.
Maimonides
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet -
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.
Walt Disney -
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.
Iris Apfel -
I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
Faran Tahir -
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.
Camille Paglia -
Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
Tadashi Yanai
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I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
Jim Gilmore -
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
Gail Collins -
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.
Joe Murray -
Music is really powerful. It's a universal language that connects everyone.
Alyson Stoner -
If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.
Oprah Winfrey