Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams -
Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
Nancy Pelosi -
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster -
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso -
At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow -
We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.
Ina Garten -
I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
Manika -
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.
Flavor Flav -
The best book in the
R. A. Torrey -
I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.
Ira Glass -
I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
Andy Rooney -
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Louisa May Alcott -
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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