Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
Quotes to Explore
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.
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The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.
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To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
