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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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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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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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
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You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.
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Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.
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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
