Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.

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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Fall

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Fall
  • Basketball
  • Sketch

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Fall
  • Moment
  • Try

• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • House
  • Fall
  • See

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Complacency

• Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida's contrary laws must fall.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Fall
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Fall

• The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fall

• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• If there's one thing any mom should have for fall, it's a peplum top.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Mom
  • Fall
  • Top

• If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • World
  • Fall
  • Apart

• My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Light
  • Photography

• I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.

  

  Emilia Clarke
  • Life
  • Work
  • Career

• I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.

  

  David Blunkett
  • People
  • Power
  • Political

• What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Process
  • Facts
  • Littles

• I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Fall
  • Wagon