Oprah Winfrey Quotes

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Community
  • Peace

• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Media
  • YouTube

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Picture
  • Guilty

• The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Health
  • Medicine

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • You
  • Me
  • Either

• The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Writing
  • America
  • History

• The great love of my life is music.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Great
  • Art
  • Artist

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Love
  • Giving

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Small

• Before seeing Truffaut's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid - I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity - a poetic comedy that's really funny.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Good
  • Children
  • Small

• In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Pallas, Apollo, or Minerva for a name to out new heavenly body. . . . I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus, to a star [Uranus], by which (with to respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.

  

  William Herschel
  • Opportunity
  • Hero
  • Gratitude

• I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna lead you there. So it's hard to find great songs.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Great
  • Career
  • Song

• I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.

  

  Kenny Cunningham

• No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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