Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
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Songs and minstrels. And the hymns of angels, Will raise from the graves, They will entreat from the beginning. They will entreat together publicly, On so great a destiny. Those whom the sea has destroyed Will make a great shout, At the time when cometh He, that will separate them.
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For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
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Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.
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Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.
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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
