Oprah Winfrey Quotes
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I love my sleep.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.
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My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.
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At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.
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Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.
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Then Nature shaped a poet's heart - a lyreFrom out whose chords the lightest breeze that blowsDrew trembling music.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
