Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I really believe that fashion, and dressing up, is a great way for guys to express and interact with their creativity.
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There's an element of fervor and passion that you can't describe when it comes to people who, their faith literally might cost them their life.
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I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
