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Oprah: It’s Great to Have a Private Jet
During a speech to Duke University’s graduating class, Oprah talked about the secrets and joys of success. Among them: owning a mansion and a jet.
“It’s great to have a nice home. It’s great to have nice homes! It’s great to have a nice home that just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara,” she told the students. “It’s great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn’t great is lying to you.”
She went on to explain that “you haven’t completed the circle of success until you help someone else move to a higher ground and get to a better place.”
The golden nugget here is the jet part. In these times of hair-shirt capitalism and envy politics, the wealthy have been going to great lengths to pretend they don’t enjoy luxury or want nice stuff. If Oprah were like most of the faux-populist rich today, she would have said something like, “I don’t need private jets, in fact I’m happier flying commercial and living in a small house. I like the simple life.” Of course, she would be lying.
But she didn’t. She told the truth, which is that flying in a private jet is one of the great material perks that money can buy. (Talk to anyone who used to be rich and they will say one thing they really miss is the jet. Apparently Oprah’s ride is a $42 million custom-build Global Express XRS built by Bombardier Aerospace).
For the past few months, the private-jet industry has been mounting an enormous public-relations campaign to get people to fly private again. It will take a recovery and wealth creation to really turn the business around. Perhaps for the public-relations part, it should forget all the boring arguments about jobs and productivity and efficiency and run a picture of Oprah with one simple line: “It’s Great to Have a Private Jet.”
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Added: May 12 2009 In: other
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This is a graduating class at Duke University, a lot of these kids will be rich soon....so this is a pretty valid discussion at their graduation ceremony.
She's telling them: Congrats! You did it! Now go out there and get rich like me.
Most graduations have something similar, it seems that you would know that if you'd graduated...
I did graduate, ****face, with a degree in statistics, magna cum laude. And I got news for you... for every million egotistical shitheads who think they're gonna get rich, only one actually does so. Most people are never going to have a private jet and don't need to have that shit rubbed in their face. It's just bad manners. Of course, Oprah being a negro, she can't help being an arrogant, tacky narcissist.
Word
...to your mother?
Mutha
Posted Jun-10-2009 by "earnhardtfanthree" (R)
She earned it? No. Stupid middle age white women gave it to her.
No....she was an academy award winning actress and a executive producer for more than a few television shows long before she ever had her talk show.
this speech was given at duke where the minimum tuition per student is $50,000 a year.....they will all be making plenty of money and it makes perfect sense to have a wealthy antrapanure give their graduation speech.
Hmmm, Lol. You are an Oprah fan. lol!
not at all....just a fan of the truth and facts, thats all. give credit where credit is due, that chick worked her butt off.
If you are such a big fan of the truth and facts then go find them! Let me tell you a fact!
There are people in Africa who spend 200 dollar for the food for one year........ And Oprah builds there 40 Million Euro school.... Magnificent! Can we say it's something else than pure grandomany? NO!
Posted May-27-2009 by "SapphireRo" (R)
True man! Nice words! Oprah is for suckers with no real life! Those who listen to her shit are people with no respect for themselves and true values...
smyle, oprah gives in a year 50 million $ and from the publicity she makes from charity it earns triple
There are people in the world who donated even half of their fortunes to help poor people but morons like you never heard about then because they don't make a publicity from that!
Oprah thinks herself some kind of goddes of charity who really invented the term! No one before her gave money to poor people, no one.....
And about that Jet she has, so what? Bin Laden is a millionaire so if tomorrow he buys himself a private Jet then you will vote him for president? Put him on the cover of NY Times? Forbes maybe?
What about Bill Gates? He can buy 10 Jets Why don't we praise him? At least he is not stupid.....
Posted May-27-2009 by "SapphireRo" (R)
She earned it? No. Stupid middle age white women gave it to her.
No....she was an academy award winning actress and a executive producer for more than a few television shows long before she ever had her talk show.
this speech was given at duke where the minimum tuition per student is $50,000 a year.....they will all be making plenty of money and it makes perfect sense to have a wealthy antrapanure give their graduation speech.
WTF do you think you're doing?
Talking sense with a factual coherent comment and all that on LL.
;)
i know.....i forgot where i was for minute.....
Posted May-13-2009 by "fern420" (R)
She earned it? No. Stupid middle age white women gave it to her.
No....she was an academy award winning actress and a executive producer for more than a few television shows long before she ever had her talk show.
this speech was given at duke where the minimum tuition per student is $50,000 a year.....they will all be making plenty of money and it makes perfect sense to have a wealthy antrapanure give their graduation speech.
Hmmm, Lol. You are an Oprah fan. lol!
not at all....just a fan of the truth and facts, thats all. give credit where credit is due, that chick worked her butt off.
Posted May-13-2009 by "fern420" (R)
"disabled"
Posted May-12-2009 by "Buzzmania" (R)
I see your point, but wealth is highly controlled in America. She is a puppet billionaire. Just to make it look like we all can be as rich as her. It's all an illusion. Give the slaves a a symbol of hope and they will work to death.
America is a Ponzy Scheme. Think about it. Social Security (as most on Live Leak live off of) is a Ponzy Scheme. Those receiving NOW are being supported by myself and others paying into the system.
By the time we reach retirement, all the loser "diabled" i.e. too lazy to work, people will have exhausted the trust fund on ammunition shot into paper and sand.
Posted May-12-2009 by "Buzzmania" (R)
She earned it? No. Stupid middle age white women gave it to her.
No....she was an academy award winning actress and a executive producer for more than a few television shows long before she ever had her talk show.
this speech was given at duke where the minimum tuition per student is $50,000 a year.....they will all be making plenty of money and it makes perfect sense to have a wealthy antrapanure give their graduation speech.
Hmmm, Lol. You are an Oprah fan. lol!
Posted May-12-2009 by "Songun" (R)
I wonder if oprah has any missle defence flares on her jet. In case a show or speech goes bad and she has to be shuttled to the runway under heavy guard. Say for instance your a drunken homless russian soldier with an SA3 antiaircraft missle in one hand, and an empty bottle of vodka and an unusable coupon for a free 2 piece chicken from KFC in the other hand.
Posted May-12-2009 by "bongabonga99" (B)
Exactly. Gore, De Caprio, Woody Harrelson, Streisand...it's all "do as I say, not as I do."
Posted May-12-2009 by "nicoal" (R)
And the fools around the country do as they are told, saving energy while the rich hog it all to themselves. Or at least telling everyone else to do their part while they don't either.
Posted May-12-2009 by "rongravy" (R)
She earned it? No. Stupid middle age white women gave it to her.
You're just jealous.
Posted May-12-2009 by "Punch_The_Monkey" (R)
the stupid sheeple always fall victim to the elite, like oprah and obama.
lol
Posted May-12-2009 by "oldmilo" (R)
She earned it? No. Stupid middle age white women gave it to her.
No....she was an academy award winning actress and a executive producer for more than a few television shows long before she ever had her talk show.
this speech was given at duke where the minimum tuition per student is $50,000 a year.....they will all be making plenty of money and it makes perfect sense to have a wealthy antrapanure give their graduation speech.
WTF do you think you're doing?
Talking sense with a factual coherent comment and all that on LL.
;)
Posted May-12-2009 by "smyle" (R)
oprah sucks a big one.
Posted May-12-2009 by "menolikey" (R)