Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

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• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
  • Driven

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • Animal
  • Favorite

• I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Movies

• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Leaders

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Real
  • Character
  • Acting

• I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Future

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Artist

• I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Respect

• The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.

  

  John John Florence
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Family

• Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Life
  • World
  • Evil

• We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
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