Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.
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In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.
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No matter what happens, one should not stop dreaming... dreams do come true.
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The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own heroes - ideals for heroes - and they don't need to be told elaborate lies.
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Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
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What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?
