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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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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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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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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We significantly increased our global presence in 2014. During the year, we expanded the number of languages in which we serve customers to a total of 20.
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Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.
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Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
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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.
