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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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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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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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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 heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular.
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I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
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It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.
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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.
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The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.
