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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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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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 had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy
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My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
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I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that.
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North Koreans are forced to work at state jobs in a moribund economy. Countless parents watch their children go to bed hungry. Many North Korean families feel they have no option but to try to escape.
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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.
