Oprah Winfrey Quotes

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

Oprah Winfrey

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• We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • You
  • Journalism

• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Believe
  • News
  • Journalism

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Always
  • Talent

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Science
  • Hate

• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Same
  • Measure
  • Selling

• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

  

  Jay McInerney

• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

  

  David Bohm
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Revolution

• Of course, I was 19 years old, and I suddenly lost my legs. It was extremely traumatic at the time, but I'm so beyond that. I've done so much with my life.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Music
  • Politics

• A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Wall
  • Ignore