Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
-
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
-
I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
-
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
-
Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
-
The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
-
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
-
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
-
Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
-
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
-
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
-
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
-
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
-
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
-
We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
-
Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
-
Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
-
People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!
-
Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.
-
Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.
-
I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.
-
I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.
-
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
