Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

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• Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

  

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• From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.

  

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

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• My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
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• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
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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.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

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• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
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• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• Let the path be open to talent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• Women just love to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.

  

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• Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

  

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• Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

  

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• Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.

  

  Mona Sutphen
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• If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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