Oprah Winfrey Quotes

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
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• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Always
  • More
  • Laugh

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
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• You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Support
  • Passion

• We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
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  • See

• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Beliefs

• Homecourt is everything in the NBA.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everything
  • NBA

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Spiritual
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Up
  • Home
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• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Justice
  • Study

• I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Strong
  • Partner

• Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Life
  • Done
  • Road

• I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.

  

  John Fairchild
  • Experience
  • Night
  • Party

• There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Power