Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.
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Everyone can relate to the story of fighting for happiness.
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Marlowe anticipated Whitman's barbaric yawp by setting up a national PA system of blank verse – a rising iambic system of sound to suit the new success story. (p. 223)
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[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
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I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.
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One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.
