Oprah Winfrey Quotes

One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

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• I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Reason
  • Constitution

• For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Know
  • Sports
  • Lose

• Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Music
  • Science
  • Literature

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Myself
  • Film
  • Performance

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Make
  • Used
  • Watch

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Death
  • Lies

• This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Decade

• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hate
  • Brother
  • Speech

• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • People
  • Different

• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men

• Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Business
  • Simple
  • motivation

• I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.

  

  Toby McKeehan
  • People
  • Music
  • Truth

• All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.

  

  James Wan
  • People

• One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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