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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During my stage shows, I am so energetic. It's constant! I just don't stand still. I actually got given a mic stand from my team to say 'Just calm down. Stand still for at least two songs.' But now I just pick it up and walk around with it.
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Napoleon has now surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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I have a lot of memos in my phone of songs; I've had dreams about a melody. It's always melody first as far as when stuff like that happens - I find that my melodic sense is my strongest asset as a songwriter.
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26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?
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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?
