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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People need to have compassion for others.
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I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.
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Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.
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Whatever is common to children of a given age is set up as the fundamental character of that age. The fact that three-year-old children are quite often negative is considered evidence that negativism is inherent in the nature of three-year-olds, and the concept of a negative age or stage is then regarded as an explanation for the appearance of negativism.
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We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
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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.
