Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself.
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Any guy who’s played team sports has practiced a skill I call 'team sport empathy': he’s practiced focusing on anticipating the other team’s moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.
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I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".
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I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.
