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

• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Silence

• 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

• The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

  

  James Thomson
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Done

• Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Knowledge

• The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

  

  Matthew Morrison
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dance

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

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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