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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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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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
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Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
