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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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
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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.
