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Oprah Winfrey
Geburtstag: 29. Januar 1954
Andere Namen: Oprah Winfreyová
Oprah Gail Winfrey ist eine amerikanische Talkshow-Moderatorin, Schauspielerin und Unternehmerin. Sie ist bekannt für The Oprah Winfrey Show, die bis zu ihrer Einstellung 2011 bei weitem erfolgreichste Talkshow des US-amerikanischen Fernsehens, deren Moderation sie 1984 übernommen hatte und die später nach ihr benannt wurde. 2006 hatte die wöchentliche Show 21 Millionen Zuschauer in 105 Ländern.
Winfrey ist Eigentümerin des Produktionsunternehmens HARPO Productions, das ihre und viele andere erfolgreiche US-amerikanische TV-Formate produziert. Sie ist die erste Afroamerikanerin, die Milliardärin wurde. Laut des US-Wirtschaftsmagazins Forbes verdiente sie im Zeitraum Juni 2009 bis Juni 2010 rund 315 Millionen US-Dollar. Ihr Vermögen wird auf 2,8 Milliarden US-Dollar geschätzt. Durch ihren starken Einfluss in den Medien und ihre große Fangemeinde, vor allem in den USA, belegte sie 2010 in der Liste The World’s Most Powerful People des Wirtschaftsmagazins Forbes Platz 64. Wikipedia
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„Trust your heart, and success will come to you.“
OWN Network on "Oprah Winfrey Show"
CNN interview (2011)
So that what we've learnt on this show; You are responsible for your life and when you get that, everything changes, my friends. So don't wait for somebody else to fix you, to save you or complete you...
"Oprah Winfrey Show Finale" in CBS (25 May 2011)
"Oprah Winfrey Show Finale" in CBS (25 May 2011)
Kontext: People often ask me: "What is the secret to the success of the show?" "How it lasted 25 years?" I none jokingly say: "My team and Jesus", because nothing but the Hand of God has made this possible for me. For all of you who get railed up when I mentioned God and you wanna know which God am I talking about, I am talking about the same one you talk about, I am talking about the Alpha and Omega, the Omniscience, the Unprecedented, the Ultimate Consciousness, the Source, the Force, the all of everything that is, The One and Only G-O-D, that's what I am talking about...
„What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life.“
O Magazine (January 2007), pages 160 & 217
Kontext: What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your circumstances, because you are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
Interview on Entertainment Tonight, as quoted in "Oprah Winfrey Offers Words of Wisdom in Wake of Deadly Las Vegas Shooting", KTVB (2 October 2017) http://www.ktvb.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/oprah-winfrey-offers-words-of-wisdom-in-wake-of-deadly-las-vegas-shooting-exclusive/480587423
Kontext: I feel like my soul is aching for the country. … There's not a day that goes by where I'm not putting on my shoes, or brushing my teeth, where I just think about the ordinariness of, people who just went to a concert, or the ordinariness of the day from people from 9/11, who were just doing an ordinary thing, and then you never get home. … So, I would say that these days of crisis and tragedy are to remind us all to be present in the ordinariness of our lives, that actually turns out to be extraordinary, when the person you love doesn't come home at night.
I pay attention to things, you know? … This is to make us all more awakened about our own life, and the fact that it shows up this way is a horror. But, as I heard someone say, seeing people coming together, helping each other — whether it's this crisis we're in or what we saw weeks ago in, in Houston, in Florida, and now in Puerto Rico — it shows the humanity of us all. So, it's an opportunity to show the best of ourselves, when the worst shows up.
„What is the secret to the success of the show?“
"Oprah Winfrey Show Finale" in CBS (25 May 2011)
Kontext: People often ask me: "What is the secret to the success of the show?" "How it lasted 25 years?" I none jokingly say: "My team and Jesus", because nothing but the Hand of God has made this possible for me. For all of you who get railed up when I mentioned God and you wanna know which God am I talking about, I am talking about the same one you talk about, I am talking about the Alpha and Omega, the Omniscience, the Unprecedented, the Ultimate Consciousness, the Source, the Force, the all of everything that is, The One and Only G-O-D, that's what I am talking about...
„I feel like my soul is aching for the country.“
Interview on Entertainment Tonight, as quoted in "Oprah Winfrey Offers Words of Wisdom in Wake of Deadly Las Vegas Shooting", KTVB (2 October 2017) http://www.ktvb.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/oprah-winfrey-offers-words-of-wisdom-in-wake-of-deadly-las-vegas-shooting-exclusive/480587423
Kontext: I feel like my soul is aching for the country. … There's not a day that goes by where I'm not putting on my shoes, or brushing my teeth, where I just think about the ordinariness of, people who just went to a concert, or the ordinariness of the day from people from 9/11, who were just doing an ordinary thing, and then you never get home. … So, I would say that these days of crisis and tragedy are to remind us all to be present in the ordinariness of our lives, that actually turns out to be extraordinary, when the person you love doesn't come home at night.
I pay attention to things, you know? … This is to make us all more awakened about our own life, and the fact that it shows up this way is a horror. But, as I heard someone say, seeing people coming together, helping each other — whether it's this crisis we're in or what we saw weeks ago in, in Houston, in Florida, and now in Puerto Rico — it shows the humanity of us all. So, it's an opportunity to show the best of ourselves, when the worst shows up.
"Oprah: 'Free speech rocks' " in CNN (26 February 1998)
O Magazine (January 2007), pages 160 & 217
Kontext: What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your circumstances, because you are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
After Barack Obama's 2004 speech at the Democratic convention, as quoted in "Man of the Moment" at Oprah.com (19 January 2005) http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Man-of-the-Moment/print/1/?slide=5
2013-10-13
Super Soul Sunday
TV
OWN
http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/Soul-to-Soul-with-Diana-Nyad-Im-an-Atheist-Whos-In-Awe-Video, quoted in * 2013-10-15
Why Oprah's Anti-Atheist Bias Hurts So Much
David Niose
Our Humanity, Naturally
Psychology Today
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201310/why-oprahs-anti-atheist-bias-hurts-so-much
in response to endurance swimmer Diana Nyad saying she can "weep with the beauty of this universe and be moved by all of humanity".
"Oprah: 'Free speech rocks' " in CNN (26 February 1998)
So, that's the way I look at medical healing.
To Kim Tinkham, who wrote Oprah that she watched her show about The Secret, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, and decided to heal herself instead of a mastectomy and chemotherapy that four doctors told her she urgently needed, on The Oprah Winfrey Show (March 2007) · YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uf-5yuRiPs
About her friend Gayle King, in "Oprah: Gayle and I Are Not Gay" in People (16 July 2006) http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1215402,00.html