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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I like the smell of armpits in the morning. It's like victory.
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You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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The Koran did not invent or introduce patriarchy.
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Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.
