Oprah Winfrey Quotes
When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
