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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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
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Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.
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I do not believe-indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe-that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary...
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.
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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.
