Oprah Winfrey Quotes

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

Oprah Winfrey

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

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

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Worry

• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Me

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Feeling
  • Body
  • Kindness

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Father
  • Me
  • Kind

• Health care should be affordable for everyone.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Health
  • Care
  • Everyone

• When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Doing

• There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Up
  • Live

• I don't think I've ever done anything professionally.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Think
  • To Do
  • Professionally

• Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Vulnerability

• I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I'm doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about?

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Happy

• The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Life
  • Thoughts

• If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth