Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
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Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
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Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, - roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
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You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
