Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
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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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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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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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Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
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Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
