Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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It was Sophie Taeuber who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.
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We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.
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Women are sacred.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.
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Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.
