Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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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 this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
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I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
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I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
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At the time, it was a really funny joke [Fluffy] and I went back and forth with going against the joke or embrace it. I decided to embrace it and now we're talking about it, so it was a good call.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.
