Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
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You know, I think that people give you back what you gave them. I try to be... as I am.
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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
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These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back home. That's not how to make a life. I want a girl to come in knowing full well what she's getting into and being able to deal and make decisions that will create a career.
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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
