Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
Quotes to Explore
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
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I was able to do that [showing up of Democratic benefits] when I was the candidate. But I've not seen or presided over that kind of systematic outreach that I think needs to happen.
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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
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I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.
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Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
