Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.
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When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'
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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
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Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.
