"I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives."
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"Life is better when you share it."
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"I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing."
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"I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it."
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"All pain is the same."
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"It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do."
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"How you spend your time defines who you are."
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"I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina."
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"One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can."
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"My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name."
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"I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me."
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"I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized."
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"Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner."
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"There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel."
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"Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour."
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"I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger."
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"You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that."
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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 will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons."
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"I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career."
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