Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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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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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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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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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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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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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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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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You have to develop a very thick skin.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac.
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Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?
