Oprah Winfrey Quotes

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

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• I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Information
  • Speed

• People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Think
  • Future
  • Twitter

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Day

• The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Support
  • Waiting
  • Enjoy

• The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Worst
  • Cry

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Guy
  • House

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it's all amazing, but what separates the show Westworld is that it's an existential drama. It's an intellectual nightmare. It is all very much based in reality. A lot of the technologies that we're exploring is stuff that we're working at, right now. All of this is not that far away. It's taking a look at humanity and the state that we're in now and what would happen, if we kept on going the way that we're going and we created this artificial intelligence.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Created

• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Love
  • Weird

• For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• You give the money where you want it.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Money
  • Want
  • You

• When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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  • Wisdom
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