Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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Sooner or later, the headphone jack is going away. There are just too many reasons aligned against it sticking around any longer.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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People like to pretend that all women have the same experience or that all gay people have the same experience. But everyone's life is different, and everyone's point of view is valid.
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I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
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According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
