Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

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• I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

  

  K. Flay
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Ordinary

• I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Small
  • Funny
  • Fight

• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Idea
  • Intelligent
  • Acceptance

• When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

  

  Morna Anne Murray
  • Heart
  • Young
  • Youth

• When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Girl

• The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Firsts
  • Records

• Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Ideas
  • Forever
  • Used

• A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Done
  • Giving
  • Kind

• You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Smoking
  • Quitting
  • Too Late

• It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • High
  • Game

• Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Political
  • Past
  • Knowledge

• Instability does affect (development). This is clear: Where you have instability, you cannot make development. But when there is no development, that's also a fertile ground for instability.

  

  Asha-Rose Migiro
  • Development
  • Instability

• You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Believe
  • Person
  • Weapons

• Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Writing
  • Agony

• And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Play
  • I Think
  • Worthwhile

• I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

  

  Michael Giles
  • Music
  • Creative
  • I Think

• I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • I Think
  • Emphasis
  • Millennials