Oprah Winfrey Quotes
When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.
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Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
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I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
