Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

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• If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Independent
  • Doing

• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Actor

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Better
  • Laugh

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Focus
  • Goals
  • Economy

• Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • California
  • Places
  • Software

• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Running
  • Insanity

• I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

  

  Larry King
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Movies

• I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Been
  • Skin

• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • May
  • Happy

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

  

  Tyler Posey

• We don't do 150 date tours because you couldn't keep the intensity and standard we need over that stretch of time. You see bands doing it all the time, playing along, going through the motions, thinking 'Did I water the plants?' We come to each gig fresh and we live that gig, it is full-on, total commitment. It is an hour of pure concentration.

  

  Maxim The Prodigy
  • Time
  • Intensity
  • Standard

• I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Romantic
  • Young
  • Married

• Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz
  • Different
  • Done
  • May

• We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

  

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