Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.
Quotes to Explore
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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I hate competition.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
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I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Fashion anticipates.
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Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which has been lost. Our first poets were the namers, not the rhymers.
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O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.
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Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.
