Oprah Winfrey Quotes
There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
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As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside.
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Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.
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My wretched dragon is perplexed.
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There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
