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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Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.
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I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.
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The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.
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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.
