Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.

Oprah Winfrey

• Life
• Time
• Light
• Dark
• Effort
• Child
• Difference
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• I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Football

• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Saying

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Judge
  • Start
  • Election

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • History
  • Help

• TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Art
  • Violence

• If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Military
  • Organization

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • America
  • Political
  • More

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Freedom
  • Care
  • Injustice

• Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Hope
  • Escape
  • Fish

• It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Truck

• I guess my critics say, 'He must be crazy. Nothing can be that beautiful.' But when you think that there are so many people around the world who have nothing, you realize how lucky you are to be making a living in the big leagues.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Think
  • Realize
  • Critics

• It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, 'Now then, Pooh, time for a little something.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Time

• The first recipe I made was a disaster. I'd been chopping and pressing dates to create a raw brownie, and I thought it would work even better if I blended them in a food processor. So I went and bought one specially. When my boyfriend at the time came over to try the results, he took one bite and spat it out - I'd left the plastic on the blades.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Time
  • Work
  • Food

• Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Light