Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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I want POM Wonderful to be within arm's reach of everyone who wants it. That is the biggest service I can do.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
