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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You just can't control your art in the future.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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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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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be tired.
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I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
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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.
