Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I call investing the greatest business in the world … because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate, the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! and nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity lost. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
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The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.
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Business must be a force for good in the world.
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You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.
