Oprah Winfrey Quotes

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

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• The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Doing
  • Edge

• I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Communism

• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Think
  • Food

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Up
  • True
  • Nature

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Power
  • Political

• There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Real
  • Family
  • Inspired

• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kids

• I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Real
  • Game
  • Action

• I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Collaboration

• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Small
  • Actor

• 'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Book
  • Earth
  • Diversity

• Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Power
  • Want
  • Information

• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Want
  • Magic
  • Tricks

• You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Tough

• Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • House
  • Bored

• I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Want