Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.
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Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.
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Always listen to your inner voice.
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I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.
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If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.
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Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.
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All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.
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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you'll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.
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If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.
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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
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The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.
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When I didn't have friends, I had books.
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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.
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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.
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I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.
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No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.
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When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.
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I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.
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I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.
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You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.
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It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you.
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If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance.
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You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.