Oprah Winfrey Quotes
What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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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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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
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Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.
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The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.
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Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.
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You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
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What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.
