Oprah Winfrey Quotes
My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
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When you negotiate a deal, you clearly know a lot about the other person.
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My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
