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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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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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.
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...You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up – a line which I often thought was a very plausible one – that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
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I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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I don't need the water to be inspired. My stories inspire me, not the location of where I'm parked. And good thing, since I've had to finish books in airports, in the RV we used to have, the lake house, while on vacation, at home, in the kitchen when my office PC was on the fritz.
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
