Oprah Winfrey Quotes

My reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • Society
  • Trust

• Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Job
  • Help
  • Guy

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Experience
  • Air
  • Resistance

• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Respect
  • Kind
  • Lie

• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Look
  • Emotion

• On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • Maintenance

• The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Successful

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • House
  • Goals

• I'm not a huge fan of my work.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Fan
  • Huge

• I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Want
  • Just
  • Girlfriend

• I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Life
  • Worry

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Free

• I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• My reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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