Oprah Winfrey Quotes
My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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Working with BJ The Chicago Kid was amazing.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big.
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When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.
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Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.
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My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.
