Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
