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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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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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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Spin class is the best for your core!
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Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it's one of those things that happens. Every year the level is getting higher, and I think we surprise a lot of people when the world focuses its attention on the World Cup or the Olympics final.
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.
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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.
