Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.
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I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
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Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
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If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
