Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and wouldn't know what you're talking about. Have a bun.' 'He doesn't love the Turks,' said Philippa. 'He kills them.' 'That isn't hate,' said Kate Somerville. 'That's simply hoeing among one's principles to keep them healthy and neat. I'm sure he would tell you he bears them no personal grudge; and they think they're going to Paradise anyway, so it does everyone good.
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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
