Oprah Winfrey Quotes

In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

Oprah Winfrey

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• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
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• I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.

  

  Patina Miller
  • City
  • Sister
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• People believe what they want to believe.

  

  Tab Hunter
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  • Believe
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• I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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  • Book
  • Bad

• A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Think
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• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Love
  • Honest

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Reality
  • Story

• I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
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• I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Night
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• It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Problems
  • Racial

• I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Time
  • First

• When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
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• I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • People
  • American
  • America

• So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

  

  Ellen Bass
  • People
  • Nature
  • Courage

• Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Women

• 'If Ryan Giggs is worth 20 million, Dennis Bergkamp is worth 100 million.' - Marco van Basten.

  

  Dennis Bergkamp

• I’m going to explode,” she muttered. “Into a cloud of dust and despair.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Despair
  • Cloud
  • Going To

• In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Children
  • America