Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit on the face of it - they never felt such an urge, and therefore it must not exist.
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I think it's unfair to commit to a girl and not be able to give her the time she deserves.
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Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.
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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
