Oprah Winfrey Quotes
To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.
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All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
