Oprah Winfrey Quotes

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

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• I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Want
  • Down
  • Mental Illness

• In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Doing
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• I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Think
  • English

• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Up
  • Age
  • Moment

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
  • Negative

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Good
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Men
  • Free
  • Speak

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• Never judge a person if you don't know him.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Know
  • Judge

• People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Good
  • Job
  • Afraid

• Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Power

• When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
  • Lost

• Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Sometimes

• There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

  

  Liv Tyler
  • Beautiful

• When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

  

  John Grant

• If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.

  

  Terry Gross
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Hope
  • Vision