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
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• 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

• I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

  

  Dee Snider

• The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Writing
  • Drawing
  • Illustration

• My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents

• Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date?

  

  Pepe Eliaschev
  • Why
  • War

• I'm a fan of odd meters. For example, I've decided to sing 'No Business Like Show Business,' but I'll be doing it in constantly changing 5/4, 7/4 and 11/4 time signatures. I've found a way to make that work.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• 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