Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.
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Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.
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There were no ugly people in Ethiopia.
