Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.
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When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.
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I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.
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I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
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Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
