Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Excellence always sells.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.
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No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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'Nip/Tuck' did make me very comfortable in my own skin, no pun intended. I had to be stripped down a lot, and you're kind of in front of the whole world, and it teaches you to accept yourself and be comfortable with yourself real quickly.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
