Oprah Winfrey Quotes

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

Oprah Winfrey

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• Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Health
  • Suffering

• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Would
  • Fragrance
  • Fanatic

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • People
  • May
  • Military

• My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Me

• Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Small
  • Island

• We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Change
  • Inspired
  • Act

• I wanted to direct more than I wanted to act. And I found I couldn't do everything.

  

  Dinah Manoff

• When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Work
  • Home
  • Father

• My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

  

  Elizabeth Moon

• What can be explained is not poetry.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • Poetry

• If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Want
  • Goals