Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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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 felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.
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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.
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When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
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I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.
