Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.
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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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You can have a coach for five or six years, and eventually, that coach has so little new to say. So get somebody else to give a different point of view. Somebody will see something I don't see and vice versa. You evolve with your game and your coaches.
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
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There's no reason women in their late 30s and 40s shouldn't be thought of sexually.
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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
