Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.
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A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
