Oprah Winfrey Quotes

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

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• Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • History
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• The stratosphere is a hostile place.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Place
  • Hostile
  • Stratosphere

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • City
  • Play
  • New York

• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • Today
  • Struggle

• If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Home
  • Know

• If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Think
  • You
  • Film

• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Love
  • Power
  • City

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Power

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • School
  • Family
  • Opportunity

• If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • House

• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Think
  • For Him
  • Loving

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Done
  • Career
  • Year

• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Fear
  • Style
  • Said

• Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Why
  • High

• Black Lives Matter is proving itself to seek only one end - and that is discord, alienation among Americans, rise in hate, and destruction of community bonds. The relative increase in justice afforded black Americans is of little concern, save as a convenient veneer for their anti-democratic mission.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Black
  • Hate
  • Community

• I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Good
  • Painting
  • Outdoor

• To be able to stand on the podium and see one Canadian flag raised is one thing, but to see two, it feels like you're not alone.

  

  Kaetlyn Osmond
  • Alone

• For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Individual
  • Choice

• With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Experience
  • Alone
  • Painting