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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"there is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it"

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"I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me"."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?"

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?"

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west."

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them."

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels."

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion."

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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
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"If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!"

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others."

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Natalie Musician
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"This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don’t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing."

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