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Oprah asked me questions about my experience and how I was handling things now. We did talk a little about Beamon, what I remember most is her kindness ... her words of encouragement to stay strong and do positive things in life.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside I had the sacred honor of witnessing the man responsible for my life, take his last breath, we could feel Peace enter the room at his passing.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I thought, 'I gotta have that, even if I never wear it,' then I thought, 'I know, that will be my wedding dress!'.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Oscar-nominated movie has been a vehicle for magic and purpose in my life, i don't know anybody who's ever been associated with it whose life didn't get enhanced.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I've had a lot of time to reflect what this moment means to us as a family and a community.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was struck by the work these organizations are doing and while everyone's priority right now is to stay safer at home, I know there are many of us looking for ways to help, i believe that America's Food Fund will be a powerful way to make a difference for our neighbors in need.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Gentleman Graham did not arrive from Chicago until Thursday, Gentleman Graham had been speaking in St. Louis. Gentleman Graham'd been on planes.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm never bored, because I always have Oprah Winfrey, i never feel alone, have never felt alone, because I just love being with Oprah Winfrey.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think we still have to figure out a way to navigate that with each other, that we can disagree, and you can be mad at me even, but you can't speak to me the way I was spoken to and threatened.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Anybody can criticize anything, but the misogynistic vitriol to the point where it is dangerous to be in the streets alone... because it's not just the people who are attacking. It's the other people who feel like they can take that message and do whatever they want.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
She's not doing well and feels that she was put in a really terrible position, because that interview had already ran and in the context of the interview, everyone seemed fine, including Lisa Leslie.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
She is not doing well, she is not doing well because she now has death threats and has to now travel with security. She is feeling very much attacked.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He did reach out multiple times and attempted to pressure me.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
He and I agree that had we tied the marital knot, we would not still be together.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Anyone whos ever met him is always amazed by what a genuine gentleman he is, hes so positive. Wants the best for me and everyone he knows. Truly wishes people well. Doesnt curse... Never have I heard him gossip or say a negative thing about anyone.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I have decided that I will no longer be executive producer on the untitled Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering documentary and it will not air on Apple TV+, first and foremost, I want it to be known that I unequivocally believe and support the women. Their stories deserve to be told and heard. In my opinion, there is more work to be done on the film to illuminate the full scope of what the victims endured, and it has become clear that the filmmakers and I are not aligned in that creative vision. The statement continued:.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I am passionate about WW's potential to reach and inspire even more people in the years to come.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Seeing you young Oprah Winfrey scholars here today has moved me deeply, i am so proud of you, I'm proud of everybody in attendance at this school who is seeking to know more clearly who you are, the value you hold and how you will share that value with the rest of the world.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am who I am today because of the experience of learning to read at an early age. Reading opened up a whole world for me beyond the red dirt road and my grandmother's porch in Mississippi, i want to do that for everybody. And the opportunity to do this with Apple, to speak to people all over the world about the pleasures, the excitement, the tension, the drama that a good book can bring you... I don't know what's better than that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What I know for sure is we can all come together to support a stronger, healthier, more abundant life -- focused on what makes us feel energized, connected and empowered, as I travel the country, my hope for this experience is to motivate others to let 2020 be the year of transformation and triumph -- beginning first and foremost with what makes us well. This is the year to move forward, let's make it happen in 2020 !
Found on CNN 5 years ago
She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller, she was a magician with language, who understood the Power of words. She used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend them.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Thats a half a million dollars to encourage you to keep doing what youre doing, because what youre doing is moving in the right direction, i saw what your great principal was doing, and I thought, what can I do ?
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think that's remarkable that despite everything that's going on Meghan Markle.The does not read anything.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I feel that if people really knew her they would know that she is not only everything we perceive of her in being graceful and dynamic in holding that position, but she just has a wonderful, warm, giving, loving heart, i think it's very unfair.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There has never been a moment quite like this one, we have this unique opportunity to rise to our best selves in how we use, and choose to use, both our technology and our humanity.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am proud and honored to be a part of this platform where I can connect with people around to the world to show meaningful ways to create positive change.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I've joined in order to serve this moment, because the Apple platform allows me to do what I do in a whole new way.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We just want to hear someone who agrees with what we have to say, we aren't necessarily looking for or searching out perspectives that are different from ours.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
For me, this moment transcends Michael Jackson, it is much bigger than any one person. This is a moment in time that allows us to see this societal corruption. It's like a scourge on humanity. If it gets you, our audience, to see how it happens, then some good would have come of it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think she presses her audience -- whether or not they agree with her -- to be accountable for what their perspective is, i think she does push her audience in a way that's very distinctive from anyone else who has graced the talk show stage.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is a moment in time that allows us to see this societal corruption. It's like a scourge on humanity.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I empathize with the women now coming forward and hope justice is served.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I feel like it was as sacred and as blessed as a passing can be.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What I said was,' Thank you. Thank you, because I know it's been hard for you. It was hard for you as a young girl having a baby, in Mississippi. No education. No training. No skills. Seventeen, you get pregnant with this baby.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I hopped on a plane and I went early -- I surprised Vernita Lee, vernita Lee's sitting in this little room -- Vernita Lee loves sitting in this room where it's 80 degrees. Vernita Lee just watches TV all day... She's had nurses and so forth over the years. Even when Vernita Lee didn't need nurses, Vernita Lee's had nurses. Vernita Lee just liked having all these people.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
People talk about 'these are such dark times', but what if we shift the paradigm? Because I see it differently, i see, 'Isn't this remarkable that we're waking up?' For years, women have endured craziness. This is what's happening to people. They're allowing themselves to not just become corroded, but to become hysterical. You've got to lean to the happiness.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
In that political structure - all the non-truths, the bullshit, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on - I feel like I could not exist, i would not be able to do it. It's not a clean business. It would kill me.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
People talk about' these are such dark times', but what if we shift the paradigm ? Because I see British Vogue differently, i see,' Isn't this remarkable that we're waking up ?' For years, women have endured craziness. This is what's happening to people. They're allowing themselves to not just become corroded, but to become hysterical. You've got to lean to the happiness.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
In that political structure -- all the non-truths, the bullsh * t, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on -- I feel like I could not exist, i would not be able to do it. It's not a clean business. It would kill me.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The role that she's taken on it's very austere, it's very sort of serious and I think there's a great weight that she has ... acquired through that and she takes it very seriously, i think it was the last moment probably that she could reflect sort of the other side to her ... the joy and the human within her.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The reason so many of us can't move forward is because we're cramped in a space too small to hold our spirit, you have to be in alignment with what it is you want to do.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It happened to me at 9, and then 10, and then 11, and then 12, 13, 14. You don’t have the language to begin to explain what’s happening to you, that’s why you feel you’re not going to be believed. And if the abuser, the molester, is any good, they will make you feel that you are complicit, that you were part of it. That’s what keeps you from telling.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men, but their time is up. Their time is up. Their time is up.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men, but their time is up. Their time is up.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I'd like to do more films, but to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award means more to me than any film, any acclaim, even an Oscar, because what it says is you all get it.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
You see there really is no darker secret than sexual abuse, i’m telling you about myself so that maybe the closet where so many sexual abuse victims and their molesters hide might swing open just a crack today and let some light in.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When I was growing up, books were my friends, when I didn’t have friends, I had books. And one of the greatest pleasures I have right now in life is to be reading a really good book and to know I have a really, really good book after that book to read.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I won’t say goodbye, i’ll just say… until we meet again.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When I look at that show, I think it was one of the biggest ego trips of my life.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I want to thank everybody who’s nurtured me, who’s stood in the gap for me.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I heard Deborah [Lacks] on tape, that Rebecca Skloot, the author of the book had, saying she wanted me to [play her], so, I really did it to honor her, to serve that notion of her completing the circle for finding her mother, telling the story in the book and then getting it out into the world.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Inside every overweight woman, is a woman she knows she can be, nothing you’ve ever been through is wasted. So, every time I tried and failed, every time I tried again, and every time I tried again, has brought me to this most powerful moment, to say, if not now, when ?
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I promise I won't want anything else,' and I have never yearned for something that deeply, where I thought, 'If it doesn't happen, I don't think I'm going to live,' that surrender thing really changed my life, forever, and how I operate with everything.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This has been the most difficult thing I have ever done in my life, those of you who are starting dieting -- this is what 67 pounds of fat looks like. ... It's amazing to me that I can't lift it, but I used to carry it around every day. When you talk about making yourself the best you can be, I'm glad I did this for my heart, because my poor heart had to send blood to all of this. It's shocking to me.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Weight Watchers has given me the tools to begin to make the lasting shift that I and so many of us who are struggling with weight have longed for.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I believe in the program so much I decided to invest in the company and partner in its evolution.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The idea is that hope and possibility is real, look at what they were able to do with so little, and look at we now how with so much. If they could do that, imagine what now can be accomplished with the opportunity through social media and connection, the opportunity through understanding that absolutely we are more alike than we are different.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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