Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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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.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I went to college when I was 27, and somehow, between high school and college, I became obsessed with getting A's. I can tell you exactly how many non-A's I had, and tell you honestly that I cried every time!
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.
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Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, they work for individual franchise owners, ensuring that each individual fast-food outlet would have to organize and win union recognition separately. So there's not one central employer to bargain with, as in a traditional union campaign.
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Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
