Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Oprah Winfrey

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• Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Mom

• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Money
  • Lost
  • City

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Past
  • Like
  • Sea

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• Excellence always sells.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Always
  • Excellence
  • Sells

• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Support
  • Government
  • Period

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Country
  • Family

• Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Difference
  • Privacy
  • Secrecy

• The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • Day
  • Last

• A laugh is a terrible weapon.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Laugh
  • Terrible
  • Weapon

• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Change

• I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Time
  • Women
  • Change

• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Good
  • Man

• It's annoying to be on the bench - it's truly annoying - but it's a test you have to overcome, and that's how you progress. It's difficult because all you want is to be able to help the team, and when you're on the bench, you can't.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Help
  • Team
  • Progress

• When E! ended the show, it wasn't because it was low-rated. It was because E! did not want to pay union rerun dues.

  

  Joel McHale

• It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • America
  • Parent

• The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Done
  • Environment
  • Rules

• I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Myself