Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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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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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.
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I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
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For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
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I see 'Eligible' as a homage, and I see 'Pride and Prejudice' as a perfect book. You can dispute whether this project is a good idea, but you can't dispute my fondness for the novel.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
