Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
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There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
