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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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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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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My plan was never to be an actor like my father.
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No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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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.
