Lee Siegel In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution. – Lee Siegel America Quotes Based Quotes Change Quotes Chicago Quotes Country Quotes Cultural Quotes Entered Quotes Human Quotes Nationally Quotes Nature Quotes Oprah Quotes Quiet Quotes Revolution Quotes Stages Quotes Started Quotes Syndicated Quotes Winfrey Quotes A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation. Oprah’s aspiration to inspire her audience with hope – elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website – is hardly ignoble.
Sinbad My job is to entertain you, leave feeling better than when you got there, and try to give you more than you thought you were gonna get. – Sinbad
Michael Stuhlbarg Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming. – Michael Stuhlbarg
Jaz Sinclair The more I get into this industry the more I kind of see that it’ll take as much as you give. So for me, setting boundaries is sometimes saying no, and just being like, ‘Actually I don’t want to do that’ even though people might in my situation say yes. – Jaz Sinclair
John Seabrook In the Twenties and Thirties, refrigerated railcars allowed growers to transport apples over great distances, and, thanks to cold-storage warehouses, wholesalers and retailers could keep them for long periods of time. – John Seabrook
Conrad AnkerParenting I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That’s what parenting is: You’re not there for yourself; you’re there for your offspring and everyone else around you. – Conrad Anker
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