Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
-
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
-
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
-
My son's a West Point cadet.
-
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
-
My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
-
I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
-
If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
-
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
-
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
-
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
-
Speed can't always get you wickets.
-
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
-
I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
-
So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
-
I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
-
The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
-
Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
-
On the other hand as I have told you, your past continually changes. It does not appear to change for you, for you change with it.
-
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
-
I've been in the emergency room for food poisoning.
-
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.
