Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

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• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Live
  • May
  • Age

• I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Best

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

  

  Dan Colen
  • World
  • Trying
  • High

• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Partner

• Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Story
  • Idea
  • Talent

• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Teacher

• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mad
  • Handle
  • Quick

• Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Hip Hop
  • Forward

• Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • World
  • Batman
  • Before

• I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Day
  • Learning

• I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Kids
  • Society
  • Learn

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Just

• If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Truth
  • Jesus
  • Authenticity

• It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Practice

• People can judge me for what I’ve done. And I think when somebody’s out in the public eye, that’s what they do. So I’m fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I’ve always stood for.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Movie
  • Books
  • Television

• Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

  

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