Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.
Quotes to Explore
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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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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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.
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We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.
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I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.
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Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!
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Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.
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I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.
