Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
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The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.
