Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.
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If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.
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It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.
