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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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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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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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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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
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That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?
