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Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Gail Winfrey , often known simply as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century, was once the world's only black billionaire, and the greatest black philanthropist in U.S. history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world
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Oprah Winfrey is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer, and philanthropist. She is known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986), which was the highest-rated TV program in history and ran for 25 years from 1986 to 2011. Oprah Winfrey was the richest African-American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire, and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. Oprah was ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
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First African American woman billionaire in history and first African American female entrepreneur to appear on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Over the 25-year run of her daytime TV talk show, she never once missed a day through absenteeism.
Is the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show.
Over the course of her 25 years hosting The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986), she taped 217 episodes dedicated to sexual abuse, having been a survivor of such abuse herself as a young girl. She was instrumental in the passage of the Oprah Bill, in the early 1990s. The bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton and is aimed at stopping child abuse.
Gave birth to a baby boy when she was just 14. The baby passed away after two weeks, from complications of being born two months premature.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the Limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the Limo breaks down.
All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?'