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Oprah Winfrey Quotes

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 29, 1954

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Moment Yourself Forward You Happened

In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but they were constantly in a state of flux. If I played something good, really substantial, I'd stick it in again.

Good Night Numbers Sixties Same

I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.

Dog Wife War Doing Worth You

I'm not good at concentrating.

Good Concentrating

Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be dealt with, managed, and controlled.

Michelle Alexander

Men Black Mindset Problem System

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

Start Negative Feelings Things Away

Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.

Children Wife Salary Milk Paid Six

Any notable moments spent on a subway usually do nothing more than expose human awfulness at its most pronounced.

Moments Nothing More Human Subway

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

Flower World Film Like Brought

If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.

Life Business Day My Life You Agree

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

Best Song Think You Striving Write

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.

Power Financial Party Crisis Will

There are a few songwriters in bands I really relate to that write a certain type of joy, because a lot of artists don't really write joy. It's a thing only a few people do.

Joy People Write Because Artists

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