Quote by Oprah Winfrey
I dont think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made goo

I dont 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. – Oprah Winfrey

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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. – Oprah Winfrey

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I dont think you ever stop giving. I really dont. I think its an on-going process. And its not just about being able to write a check. Its being able to touch somebodys life. – Oprah Winfrey

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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. – Oprah Winfrey

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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. – Mick Jagger

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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. – Bertrand Russell

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One evil in old age is, that as your time is come, you think every little illness is the beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested, every knock at the door is an alarm. – Sydney Smith, letter to Robert Wilmot-Horton, 1836 February 8th

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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. – Dale Carnegie

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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Belief is when someone else does the thinking. – Buckminster Fuller, 1972

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Morality is a private and costly luxury. – Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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