Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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Even though I knew I was inside the space shuttle getting ready to go fly, something about it wasn't completely real up until we got the call at about one minute to go, to close and lock our visors and start our oxygen flow. People often ask me, "What did it feel like right at the moment of launch?" And they're surprised when I tell them actually what I felt was relief. It wasn't like being anxious or scared or anything. It was relief because this is something I had wanted to do my whole life and now that the boosters had lit, we were on our way to go do it and nothing was going to stop us.
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You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
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I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
