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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
