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Oprah Winfrey Quotes

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.

Oprah Winfrey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Yourself You Person First

It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.

Johan Cruyff

Knowledge Football Me World Wealth

Boy, there's nothing more thrilling than a chase. I'd often thought, over the years, that someone should do a whole film where it's nothing but a chase.

Mel Gibson

Thought Someone Boy Nothing More

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Andy Partridge

Felt Touring Continuous Pressured

I think something that's really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.

Amandla Stenberg

Power Social Media Me Think Media

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Tony Hillerman

Attitude Respect Time Mind Start

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

Tom Stoppard

Intention Boring Seem Failing

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles.

Tom Folsom

Story Go Hollywood Always Through

My only day off is the day I pitch.

Roger Clemens

Day Off Only Pitch

A president is always cosseted by his staff.

Monica Crowley

President Always His Staff

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Rich You Look Always Useful Should

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

Bruce Dickinson

Me You Want Rock Ask Retire

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.

Anwar Robinson

Change Music People American Someone