Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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Iraq deals with the United States regardless of who is in the White House.
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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.
