Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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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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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
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I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
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You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
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The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.
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I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.
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Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.
