Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.
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Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.
