Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I was an English major in college!
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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Most every dental school has discount dental services.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.
