Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I'm very self-critical.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
