Oprah Winfrey Quotes
There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.
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As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.
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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.
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There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
