Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.
Quotes to Explore
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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Life is a school of probability.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
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Every time I'd get a job, they'd say: 'You'll be good at loading trucks.' I couldn't explain that there was more to me than carrying things.
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Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.
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I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.
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While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
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You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.
