Possibilities Quotes
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one s own.Possibilities
Adams, Henry Brooks
1838-1918 American Historian
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
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Albran, Kehlog
1933 Author born in Brest-Litovsk
It shows exactly what you can do if you re a total psychotic.
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Allen, Woody
1935 American Director Screenwriter Actor Comedian
She didn t know it couldn t be done, so she went ahead and did it.
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Almanac, Mary S.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they re yours
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Bach, Richard
1936 American Author
There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Baruch, Bernard M.
1870-1965 American Financier
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.
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Beethoven, Ludwig Van
1770-1827 German Composer
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.
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Borghese, G. A.
I ve never met a person, I don t care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don t care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
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Bradley, Preston
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living beings in that enormous immensity.
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Braun, Wernher Von
1912-1977 German Rocket Pioneer
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Browning, Robert
1812-1889 British Poet
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
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Byrd, Richard E.
1888-1957 American Aviator Explorer Rear-Admiral
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is to good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
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Caddy, Eileen
American Spiritual Writer
The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
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Caine, Mark
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
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Campbell, Joseph
American Scholar Writer Teacher
We all have possibilities we don t know about. We can do things we don t even dream we can do.
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Carnegie, Dale
1888-1955 American Author Trainer
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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Cervantes, Miguel De
1547-1616 Spanish Novelist Dramatist Poet
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De
1881-1955 French Christian Mystic Author
No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime Let out all the length of all the reins.
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Cholmondeley, Mary
British Author
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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Clarke, Arthur C.
1917 British Science Fiction Writer
This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Davis, Bette
1908-1989 American Actress Producer
The awakening has begun!
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Dempsey, William
The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It s cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
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DeVos, Richard M.
1926 American Businessman Co-founder of Amway Corp
If I had some idea of a finish line, don t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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DeVos, Richard M.
1926 American Businessman Co-founder of Amway Corp
I dwell in Possibility.
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Dickinson, Emily
1830-1886 American Poet
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature s touch the skies.
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Dickinson, Emily
1830-1886 American Poet
When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
1859-1930 British Author Sherlock Holmes
Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
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Edison, Thomas A.
1847-1931 American Inventor Entrepreneur Founder of GE
The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
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Eiseley, Loren
1907-1977 British Writer
We have more than we use.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you ll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.
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Fletcher, John
1579-1625 British Dramatist
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can t be done.
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Ford, Henry
1863-1947 American Industrialist Founder of Ford Motor Company
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
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Ford, Henry
1863-1947 American Industrialist Founder of Ford Motor Company
There is no such thing as no chance.
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Ford, Henry
1863-1947 American Industrialist Founder of Ford Motor Company
Your range of available choices -- right now -- is limitless.
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Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)
1874-1939 American-Born French Painter
We don t know who we are until we see what we can do
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Grimes, Martha
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Hammarskjold, Dag
1905-1961 Swedish Statesman Secretary-general of UN
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
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Hotchner, A.E.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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Hurston, Zora Neale
1903-1960 American Novelist
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.
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Jeffers, Susan
American Author Speaker
Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine s potential with an overdose of stress.
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Johnson, Harry J.
American Medical Doctor
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
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Kierkegaard, Soren
1813-1855 Danish Philosopher Writer
You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.
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Kingsley, Darwin P.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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Lasch, Christopher
1932 American Historian
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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Leonard, George
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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Lerner, Max
1902 American Author Columnist
For years, people have looked at Beamon s record as unattainable. I don t accept that. I believe the Lord has given me a talent. I know the record is inside me and I will attain it.
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Lewis, Carl
1961 American Track Athlete
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
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Lombardi, Vince
1913-1970 American Football Coach
The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded; if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.
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Macleod, Robert
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Sometimes I think we re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering
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Maslow, Abraham H.
1908-1970 American Psychologist
No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
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Mccay, James T.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you ll be able to see farther.
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Morgan, John Pierpont
1837-1913 American Banker Financier Art Collector
We ain t gonna go bouncing off the walls for the next ten minutes, because when its over we ll still have the same problems. We ve gotta find a way to work this out and stay alive.
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Movie, Apollo 13
I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process.
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Nyad, Diana
American Swimmer
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He s aware of where he is and what he s doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness -- it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.
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Palmer, Arnold
1929 American Golfer
We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they re always there.
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Peale, Norman Vincent
1898-1993 American Christian Reformed Pastor Speaker Author
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
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Prince
1958 American Musician Singer Guitarist Actor Songwriter
It s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
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Robbins, Anthony
1960 American Author Speaker Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
I m in my prime. There s no goal too far, no mountain too high.
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Rudolph, Wilma
1940-1994 American Track Athlete
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
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Schuller, Robert H.
1926 American Minister (Crystal Cathedral) Author Social Leader
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you re undergoing.
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Schuller, Robert H.
1926 American Minister (Crystal Cathedral) Author Social Leader
Every one s got it in him, if he ll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There s no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
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Schwab, Charles M.
1862-1939 American Industrialist Businessman
Look at things... as they can be.
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Schwartz, David J.
American Trainer Author of The Magic of Thinking Big
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
How far is far, how high is high? We ll never know until we try.
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Song From The California Special Olympics
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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Sontag, Susan
1933 American Essayist
Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
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Sophocles
BC 495-406 Greek Tragic Poet
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don t care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
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South, Bishop Robert
1634-1716 British Clergyman
I ve discovered I ve got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
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Spielberg, Steven
1947 American Director Screenwriter
In the beginner s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert s mind there are few.
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Suzuki, Shunryu
Japanese Zen Master
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let s suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.
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Sweetland, Ben
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
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Syrus, Publilius
1st Century BC Roman Writer
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
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Teasdale, Sara
1884-1933 American Poet
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.
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Trine, Ralph Waldo
American Author
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
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Unknown, Source
Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord.
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Unknown, Source
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
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Unknown, Source
You never know what you can do until you try.
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Unknown, Source
Start viewing the possible as probable. You ll be surprised at what you can accomplish.
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Unknown, Source
No matter how good you get, there s always something further out there.
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Walton, Bill
American Basketball Player
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they ve been.
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Walton, Sam
1918-1992 American Businessman Founder of Wal-Mart Stores
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
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Warner, Charles Dudley
1829-1900 American Author
You can have it all. You just can t have it all at one time.
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Winfrey, Oprah
1954 American TV Personality Producer Actress Author