Oprah Winfrey Quotes
To me, the money is – it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.
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What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I don't think I understood how deep the Big East was. That was probably something I wasn't prepared for. It's not easy to part rank and make the first step into the middle of the pack.
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It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
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If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the airport. I fly at the front of the plane, and a limousine meets me at the other end to take me to a grand hotel, and usually an envelope is left for me with a per diem, maybe $150-a-day walking around money, and then I go home.
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You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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To me, the money is – it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
