Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Important
  • Trust
  • Justice

• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Never
  • Misunderstanding

• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Remember
  • Wife
  • Best

• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Work
  • Me
  • Myself

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• Education is so important.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Important
  • Education

• Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Pride

• God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Chance

• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Movies

• When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Different
  • Understanding

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • World
  • May
  • Single

• They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Purpose
  • Violence
  • Determination

• It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Night
  • Car
  • Driving

• As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Leader

• I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Stuff
  • Gym
  • Swim

• Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Clear