Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.
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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
