Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing … I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.
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You have to constantly monitor yourself – the results of care – always determined visually.
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There'll be the same old faces,in the same old places,where my youth was well misspent,but I toe the line and move in time,to a town called no regrets.
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I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality. 4
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
