Oprah Winfrey Quotes
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.
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Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
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I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.
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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
