Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
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When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.
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Find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.
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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
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One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
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When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!
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My reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!
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When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
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I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me".
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I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
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I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.
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Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."
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You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
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What you put out is already on its way back to you.
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Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.
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Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
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I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
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There were no ugly people in Ethiopia.