Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
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Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside.
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Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
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Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
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Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
