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Quotes by Entertainer
"Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others."
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"The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me."
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"Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem."
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"It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle."
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"Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain."
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"When I didn't have friends, I had books."
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"True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience'."
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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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"When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever."
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"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."
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"Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive."
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"When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should I," or even "perhaps." I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate "YES!"
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"You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world."
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"She will always be the rainbow in my clouds."
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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 new way to stand."
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"If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure."
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"The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give."
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"Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth."
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"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
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"Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it."
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"If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay."
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"As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free."
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"With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health."
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"There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive."
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"Your calling isn't something that somebody can tell you about. It's what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself."
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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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"Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more."
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"I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage."
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"Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it."
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"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
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"The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."
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"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die."
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"The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life."
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"When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!"
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"When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes."
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"You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it."
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"I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes."
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"The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift."
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"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it."
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"When I look to the future it's so bright it burns my eyes."
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"I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky."
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"Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now."
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"Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else."
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"You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person."
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