Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.
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The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
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All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.
