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Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954), often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American television host, media mogul, and philanthropist

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Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

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All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

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If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

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We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

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Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

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You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

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Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

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Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

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Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

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If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

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In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value What is my worth Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

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Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

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Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

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Everything in your world is created by what you think.

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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

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I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.

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I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.

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I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

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I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

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I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.

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I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

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I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

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If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.

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It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

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Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.

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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

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Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet, but they cannot live together in harmony .

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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

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That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

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The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

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The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.

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Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

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What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

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You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

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I've had a lot of time to reflect what this moment means to us as a family and a community.

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Found on CNN 4 months ago Entertainment

I was struck by the work these organizations are doing and while everyone's priority right now is to stay safer at home, I know there are many of us looking for ways to help, i believe that America's Food Fund will be a powerful way to make a difference for our neighbors in need.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

I'm never bored, because I always have Oprah Winfrey, i never feel alone, have never felt alone, because I just love being with Oprah Winfrey.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

Gentleman Graham did not arrive from Chicago until Thursday, Gentleman Graham had been speaking in St. Louis. Gentleman Graham'd been on planes.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

I think we still have to figure out a way to navigate that with each other, that we can disagree, and you can be mad at me even, but you can't speak to me the way I was spoken to and threatened.

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Found on CNN 6 months ago Entertainment

She's not doing well and feels that she was put in a really terrible position, because that interview had already ran and in the context of the interview, everyone seemed fine, including Lisa Leslie.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

Anybody can criticize anything, but the misogynistic vitriol to the point where it is dangerous to be in the streets alone... because it's not just the people who are attacking. It's the other people who feel like they can take that message and do whatever they want.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

She is not doing well, she is not doing well because she now has death threats and has to now travel with security. She is feeling very much attacked.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

He did reach out multiple times and attempted to pressure me.

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Found on FOX News 8 months ago Entertainment

Anyone whos ever met him is always amazed by what a genuine gentleman he is, hes so positive. Wants the best for me and everyone he knows. Truly wishes people well. Doesnt curse... Never have I heard him gossip or say a negative thing about anyone.

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Found on FOX News 8 months ago Entertainment

He and I agree that had we tied the marital knot, we would not still be together.

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Found on FOX News 8 months ago Entertainment

I have decided that I will no longer be executive producer on the untitled Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering documentary and it will not air on Apple TV+, first and foremost, I want it to be known that I unequivocally believe and support the women. Their stories deserve to be told and heard. In my opinion, there is more work to be done on the film to illuminate the full scope of what the victims endured, and it has become clear that the filmmakers and I are not aligned in that creative vision. The statement continued:.

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Found on FOX News 8 months ago Entertainment

I am passionate about WW's potential to reach and inspire even more people in the years to come.

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Found on CNN 9 months ago US News

Seeing you young Oprah Winfrey scholars here today has moved me deeply, i am so proud of you, I'm proud of everybody in attendance at this school who is seeking to know more clearly who you are, the value you hold and how you will share that value with the rest of the world.

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Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

I am who I am today because of the experience of learning to read at an early age. Reading opened up a whole world for me beyond the red dirt road and my grandmother's porch in Mississippi, i want to do that for everybody. And the opportunity to do this with Apple, to speak to people all over the world about the pleasures, the excitement, the tension, the drama that a good book can bring you... I don't know what's better than that.

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Found on CNN 12 months ago Entertainment

What I know for sure is we can all come together to support a stronger, healthier, more abundant life -- focused on what makes us feel energized, connected and empowered, as I travel the country, my hope for this experience is to motivate others to let 2020 be the year of transformation and triumph -- beginning first and foremost with what makes us well. This is the year to move forward, let's make it happen in 2020 !

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Entertainment

She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller, she was a magician with language, who understood the Power of words. She used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend them.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago People

Thats a half a million dollars to encourage you to keep doing what youre doing, because what youre doing is moving in the right direction, i saw what your great principal was doing, and I thought, what can I do ?

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Entertainment

I feel that if people really knew her they would know that she is not only everything we perceive of her in being graceful and dynamic in holding that position, but she just has a wonderful, warm, giving, loving heart, i think it's very unfair.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I think that's remarkable that despite everything that's going on Meghan Markle.The does not read anything.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

There has never been a moment quite like this one, we have this unique opportunity to rise to our best selves in how we use, and choose to use, both our technology and our humanity.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Technology

They're in a billion pockets, y'all.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Entertainment

I've joined in order to serve this moment, because the Apple platform allows me to do what I do in a whole new way.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Entertainment

I am proud and honored to be a part of this platform where I can connect with people around to the world to show meaningful ways to create positive change.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Entertainment

We just want to hear someone who agrees with what we have to say, we aren't necessarily looking for or searching out perspectives that are different from ours.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I think she presses her audience -- whether or not they agree with her -- to be accountable for what their perspective is, i think she does push her audience in a way that's very distinctive from anyone else who has graced the talk show stage.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

For me, this moment transcends Michael Jackson, it is much bigger than any one person. This is a moment in time that allows us to see this societal corruption. It's like a scourge on humanity. If it gets you, our audience, to see how it happens, then some good would have come of it.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

For me, this moment transcends Michael Jackson.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Entertainment

This is a moment in time that allows us to see this societal corruption. It's like a scourge on humanity.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Entertainment

I empathize with the women now coming forward and hope justice is served.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I hopped on a plane and I went early -- I surprised Vernita Lee, vernita Lee's sitting in this little room -- Vernita Lee loves sitting in this room where it's 80 degrees. Vernita Lee just watches TV all day... She's had nurses and so forth over the years. Even when Vernita Lee didn't need nurses, Vernita Lee's had nurses. Vernita Lee just liked having all these people.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

What I said was,' Thank you. Thank you, because I know it's been hard for you. It was hard for you as a young girl having a baby, in Mississippi. No education. No training. No skills. Seventeen, you get pregnant with this baby.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I feel like it was as sacred and as blessed as a passing can be.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

In that political structure - all the non-truths, the bullshit, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on - I feel like I could not exist, i would not be able to do it. It's not a clean business. It would kill me.

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Found on Reuters 2 years ago Entertainment

People talk about 'these are such dark times', but what if we shift the paradigm? Because I see it differently, i see, 'Isn't this remarkable that we're waking up?' For years, women have endured craziness. This is what's happening to people. They're allowing themselves to not just become corroded, but to become hysterical. You've got to lean to the happiness.

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Found on Reuters 2 years ago Entertainment

In that political structure -- all the non-truths, the bullsh * t, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on -- I feel like I could not exist, i would not be able to do it. It's not a clean business. It would kill me.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

People talk about' these are such dark times', but what if we shift the paradigm ? Because I see British Vogue differently, i see,' Isn't this remarkable that we're waking up ?' For years, women have endured craziness. This is what's happening to people. They're allowing themselves to not just become corroded, but to become hysterical. You've got to lean to the happiness.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

The role that she's taken on it's very austere, it's very sort of serious and I think there's a great weight that she has ... acquired through that and she takes it very seriously, i think it was the last moment probably that she could reflect sort of the other side to her ... the joy and the human within her.

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Found on Reuters 2 years ago Entertainment

The reason so many of us can't move forward is because we're cramped in a space too small to hold our spirit, you have to be in alignment with what it is you want to do.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

It happened to me at 9, and then 10, and then 11, and then 12, 13, 14. You don’t have the language to begin to explain what’s happening to you, that’s why you feel you’re not going to be believed. And if the abuser, the molester, is any good, they will make you feel that you are complicit, that you were part of it. That’s what keeps you from telling.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Entertainment

For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men, but their time is up. Their time is up. Their time is up.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men, but their time is up. Their time is up.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

You see there really is no darker secret than sexual abuse, i’m telling you about myself so that maybe the closet where so many sexual abuse victims and their molesters hide might swing open just a crack today and let some light in.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

When I was growing up, books were my friends, when I didn’t have friends, I had books. And one of the greatest pleasures I have right now in life is to be reading a really good book and to know I have a really, really good book after that book to read.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

I won’t say goodbye, i’ll just say… until we meet again.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

When I look at that show, I think it was one of the biggest ego trips of my life.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

I want to thank everybody who’s nurtured me, who’s stood in the gap for me.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

I'd like to do more films, but to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award means more to me than any film, any acclaim, even an Oscar, because what it says is you all get it.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

I heard Deborah [Lacks] on tape, that Rebecca Skloot, the author of the book had, saying she wanted me to [play her], so, I really did it to honor her, to serve that notion of her completing the circle for finding her mother, telling the story in the book and then getting it out into the world.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I didn't want to take on this role.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Inside every overweight woman, is a woman she knows she can be, nothing you’ve ever been through is wasted. So, every time I tried and failed, every time I tried again, and every time I tried again, has brought me to this most powerful moment, to say, if not now, when ?

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago Entertainment

I promise I won't want anything else,' and I have never yearned for something that deeply, where I thought, 'If it doesn't happen, I don't think I'm going to live,' that surrender thing really changed my life, forever, and how I operate with everything.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Entertainment

This has been the most difficult thing I have ever done in my life, those of you who are starting dieting -- this is what 67 pounds of fat looks like. ... It's amazing to me that I can't lift it, but I used to carry it around every day. When you talk about making yourself the best you can be, I'm glad I did this for my heart, because my poor heart had to send blood to all of this. It's shocking to me.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Health News

I believe in the program so much I decided to invest in the company and partner in its evolution.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Company News

Weight Watchers has given me the tools to begin to make the lasting shift that I and so many of us who are struggling with weight have longed for.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Company News

You guys have fun tomorrow, there's nothing like it.

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Found on FOX News 5 years ago Entertainment

Every single person who was on that bridge is a hero.

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Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

The idea is that hope and possibility is real, look at what they were able to do with so little, and look at we now how with so much. If they could do that, imagine what now can be accomplished with the opportunity through social media and connection, the opportunity through understanding that absolutely we are more alike than we are different.

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Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

I would hope that we would not stand in such harsh judgment in a moment of time when someone is hacked in their private conversations, we all make stupid mistakes ... I don't believe she's a racist.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Company News