Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
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Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription.
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There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.
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I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it.
