Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
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God hears a mother's prayer.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.
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I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
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It sounds otherworldly and mysterious, submerged under a bed of spacious texture. A place of awe where don't have answers to all of your questions.
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In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
