Oprah Winfrey Quotes
A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
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I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.
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A man may build as he chooses upon his foundations but he cannot change them or forget them, and if at the last the superstructure of his own building falls about his ears he tends to rediscover them at the end as the only rock he has to cling to.
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I think the world is much more transparent now, and I think that's probably a good thing. On the other hand, I think it makes it really tough for people who are natural born leaders who could be guiding us and leading our countries.
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As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.
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We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
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A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
