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29 Jan, 2012

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Turner talks about how he expanded his family business and made it into a million dollar business. He also expresses how important treating other are and how that factors into his success.

If you treat people with dignity, respect, and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends and the enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

Ted Turner's Greatest Success and Failure | Oprah's Master Class | Oprah Winfrey Network

Sean Penn interview

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Winfrey interviews Sean Penn in Haiti. Winfrey questions Penn on J/P HRO project, his humanitarian efforts and how he helped to relocated 40,000 homeless people to safe stable housing. 

With the exception of supplementary nutrition for children that need it or in the school there is no organizations doing food distributions here now. It’s been self-sufficient at this point. They are making what money they are making any way that they can and buying their own food.

Life in a Haitian Tent Camp | Oprah's Next Chapter | Oprah Winfrey Network

22 Jan, 2012

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Freeman educates the audience on  his struggles of being a black actor for the last few decades. Also how he stands on principle even when it’s not profitable. He turned down many roles due to inequality of the characters.

If you’re not living on the edge then you’re taking up a little too much space

Morgan Freeman Holds On to His Principles | Oprah's Master Class | Oprah Winfrey Network

George Lucas interview

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Winfrey interviews George Lucas and talks about his creativity and how he comes up with all the names for his characters.

Everyone, goes how do you come up with the names? I have a little book and I just write names all day long.  You just riff on that idea and you end up with a bunch of names. I have hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of names.

George Lucas: OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) Interview - RED TAILS

15 Jan, 2012

Pastor Joel Osteen interview

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Winfrey interviews Pastor Joel Osteen on Oprah’s Next Chapter. Winfrey questions Osteen on homosexuality and his stand on the issue.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. It’s a hard thing in a sense because I’m for everybody. I’m not against anybody. I don’t think anybody’s second class. 

Pastor Joel Osteen Responds to Criticism | Oprah’s Next Chapter | Oprah Winfrey Network

 

8 Jan, 2012

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Hawn explains her life as an actress, mother, and her road to happiness.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you’ve accrued over those years

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Fonda reminisces about her up bringing with famous parents and the lost of her mother. She focuses on how she over came her insecurities and became the woman she is today.

Many decades it took me to learn to not be afraid of saying how I feel, and to allow my vulnerabilities to show — we are not meant to be perfect, we’re meant to be whole.

Jane Fonda on Learning to Forgive Yourself | Oprah's Master Class | Oprah Winfrey Network

Chris Christie interview

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Winfrey interviews Governor Chris Christie in a one on one session detailing his family life, his wife and controlling his weight.

She was fun in a different way than I’d ever experienced with anybody I’d ever dated. She was very spontaneous. Let’s go break into the kitchen in the dining hall at college because we smell that they are baking doughnuts for the next morning. So let’s sneak in and steal some of the doughnuts now.

1 Jan, 2012

Steven Tyler interview

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Tyler talks years of drug addiction, his relationship with exs’ and American Idol in a full interview with Winfrey on Oprah’s Next Chapter.

Don’t get me wrong, every one of those girls I love them dearly. When we made love, we cried and we had a kid. It was that heavy. It was magic. It never happens like that all the time. Never cry as you climax. And it’s something I never told anybody. It was just those four times.

How Steven Tyler Survived Drug Addiction | Oprah's Next Chapter | Oprah Winfrey Network

12 Nov, 2011

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

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Winfrey wins the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 84th American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Governors Award ceremony held in the Hollywood & Highland Center Grand Ballroom. Lawrence Gordon, John Travolta, Maria Shriver, and Ayanna Hall present the award.

I never imagined myself receiving an Oscar, certainly not for doing what I believe is a part of my calling, is a part of my being. It’s a part of why I am here.

1 Feb, 2011

O Magazine interview

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Winfrey interviews Taymor for O Magazine. Taymor is asked how she fuels her creativity and successful career:

Mythology, folklore, the different places I’ve traveled all of it feeds me. But I also have very good people around me. I tend to collaborate with the same people over and over. The set designer, George Tsypin, has done six operas with me. My lighting designer started 14 years ago and did The Lion King and every show I’ve done since. I do have a new costume designer, Eiko Ishioka. I love doing costumes, but that would have been too much for me to handle.

30 Jan, 2011

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The television producer talks about how pushing people can make for a wonderful outcome.

I push people pretty hard, and the only thing that justifies the abuse is the exhilaration of a skit working, because when it does it’s a joy to behold

16 Jan, 2011

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Angelou sits down and teaches about love, life and how to be great on Oprah Winfrey’s Masterclass series.

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born—it means so can you.

Dr. Maya Angelou: "Be a Rainbow in Someone Else's Cloud" | Oprah's Master Class | OWN

9 Jan, 2011

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Jay-Z  discusses his life, the music business and lessons about both that he has learned along the way. He focuses on the difference between amazing vs. excellence. Also how to be comfortable with yourself.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great

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2 Jan, 2011

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Sawyer discusses the advice she receives along the her journey especially from her father.

My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there’s a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you’re home.

1 Jan, 2011

OWN Launch

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Opera launches new television network, Oprah Winfrey Network or OWN.

I wanted to take the ideals of great television that we’ve established on the Oprah show and bring them to you through a variety of new shows 24/7. Every minute of this network has been hand-selected by me for you, the viewers.

OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK LAUNCH JAN 1, 2011

1 May, 2010

O Magazine interview

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Hanh gives an interview to Oprah for O Magazine about the first time he saw saw a picture of the Buddha in a magazine.

I was 7, 8. He was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling. I was impressed. Around me, people were not like that, so I had the desire to be like him. And I nourished that desire until the age of 16, when I had the permission of my parents to go and ordain as a monk.