Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
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I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
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I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
