Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.
