Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.

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• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • History
  • Bridges

• I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Cross
  • Railway

• When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Couple
  • Saying
  • Bridges

• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Better
  • Victories

• Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Political
  • Party
  • Yourself

• I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Building
  • Priority
  • Bridges

• I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Feel

• I hate horror movies, with a passion.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Hate
  • Passion
  • Movies

• I love Jidenna and Leon Bridges.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Bridges

• Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Here
  • Cross
  • Your Love

• Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Stop
  • Cold

• The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Jesus

• My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Hand

• I thought it was very odd that I had a cross and that I was sticking it in a box saying terrible language. But I have to say that I did not understand.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Language
  • Understand
  • Cross

• Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separation… …we'll all still feel it. Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Long
  • Today

• Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright but America's future is going to bright as well.

  

  Barack Obama
  • School
  • Money
  • America

• I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Tomorrow

• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Opinion
  • Investment
  • Principle

• Modern morality is all about perception.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Perception
  • Modern
  • Morality

• I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Bridges
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