Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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Education is so important.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.
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One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.
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Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis invented for a purpose on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.
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I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.
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Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.