Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to read until I was a lot older, and I was behind in my classes; it was such a challenge.
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I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.
