Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I wish I sang better.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic.
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What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.
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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
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Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
