Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.
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Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
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Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.
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I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.
