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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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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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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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
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I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
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I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.
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Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.
