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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I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.
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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.