Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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My wounds, ... It was like a cortisone to heal these wounds. I rubbed it on every night and it helped me.
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If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?
