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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Twitter has a several-hour advantage in getting information.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
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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.
