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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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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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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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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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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There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'
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I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
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I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.
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As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.
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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.
