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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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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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Daria Werbowy is my beauty icon.
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Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders - from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.
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The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.
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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.
