Oprah Winfrey Quotes
When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I was a great help-side defender in college, but as far as really wanting to lock somebody up, that was never really my focus.
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It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.
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My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.
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We actually found some home videos, some really funny footage of me when I was around 3 years old. I come up to the camera to do a Nixon impression. I don't know who taught me that, but I come up to the camera and said, 'I am not a crook.' I got a really good laugh. You see me register that bringing joy to people is a positive thing.
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When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.
