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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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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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As for the exhortation with which Mr. --- closes his letter, that I will not 'go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there,' I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.
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Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
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Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.
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I like to wear short-sleeved collared shirts and high-waist trousers with shiny shoes. And at night, when I'm playing, I'll often wear suits. But it started with my uncle's vintage clothes.
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I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
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Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.
