Quotes of: Oprah-winfrey Keyword

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

Michael Moriarty

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curricul...

Spike Lee

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

Spike Lee

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

Once I get something going well, I'll risk fucking it up just for the action.

Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

Life Is Worth Living

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Life Is Worth Living

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

Life Is Worth Living

[Referring to rape] It already is bigger than everything else. It lives in front of me, behind me, next to me, inside me every single day. My schedule is dictated by it, my habits by it, my music by it.

The Mockingbirds

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Philosophy of Science

No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?

When You Were Here

But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.

When You Were Here

But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.

When You Were Here

I think if I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of always being incredibly focused on the task at hand. So wherever I've worked, I've just always tried to do my best, achieve my best, build a great team around me.

Angela Ahrendts

It's hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the chances that there's a character that I'm the best fit to play? It's r...

Aziz Ansari

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challeng...

Asa Butterfield