Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

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• The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Single
  • Powerful
  • Impossible

• You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Story

• Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Live
  • City
  • Same

• When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Good
  • Start
  • Criticism

• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Getting Older

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Husband
  • Gal

• There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Communication
  • Media
  • Old

• Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Support
  • Friend
  • Organization

• In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Laughter

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Love
  • Care
  • Child

• If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship.

  

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege