Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Trump is a systemic stress test.
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When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.
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You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
