Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I miss baseball.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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My mother was always supportive.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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I just want people to be affected by the music. I'm really affected by my surroundings and put everything in my music - what I'm not getting and what I desire. I want it to be uncompromised... almost a spiritual thing.
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Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
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I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
