Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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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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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
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I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
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I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.
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The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.
