Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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People shouldn't be interested in me. They should be interested in me if I'm not doing what I promise.
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I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.
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I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
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Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
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I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!
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Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.
