Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
Nancy Gibbs
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
Barton Gellman
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
Kat Graham
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
Olivia De Havilland
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
Ian MacKaye
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
Hannibal Buress
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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The emotions of the game do not change.
Jack Youngblood
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Now, as far as I know, nobody has ever put up the U.S.'s nuclear missiles on the Internet. I mean, it's not something I've heard about.
Aaron Swartz
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
Bruce Cockburn
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No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.
Hal Elrod
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We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.
William H. Gass
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
Malala Yousafzai
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Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
Oprah Winfrey
