Oprah Winfrey Quotes
The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.
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It's those damn critics again.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service. We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What? The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe, was a Grumman Lunar Lander.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
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The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.
