Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
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War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.
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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.
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Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from.
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
