Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.

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• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Inspired

• There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • Never
  • Private Life

• The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Attitude
  • Almost

• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

  

  Warren Giles
  • New York
  • Papers
  • Headline

• The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Small
  • Living
  • Iron

• If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Care
  • Down
  • Planning

• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Sound

• I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Hopefully

• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Like
  • Denial
  • Repression

• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Together
  • King

• I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

• The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Great
  • Action
  • Revolution

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Twitter

• I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Age
  • Father

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum

• In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Writing
  • Space

• The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • People
  • Advice

• Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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