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Oprah Winfrey
United States
Born on 29 Jan 1954
Media Proprietor, Talk Show Host
13 Quotes
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On Ambition:
I decided to be the best and the smartest.
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On Ambition:
I was like a hit album waiting to be released. I knew my day would come.
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On Motivation:
If money is your motivation, forget it.
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On Woman:
The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute... best at what you do.
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On Business:
I used to always say, 'I never went to business school and I never read a business book.' But now I think maybe I should have read a few.
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On Business:
I don't invest in anything I don't understand�it makes more sense to buy TV stations than oil wells.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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