Oprah Winfrey Quotes
There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I feel like sometimes we just need to speak more about what we're going through.
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There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.
