Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
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I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.
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Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
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Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.
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No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.
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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
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Barack Obama pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated.
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As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.
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I'll always be fascinated with radio. Radio allows you to have a one-to-one relationship with the person sharing the music with you. You can also do very many things if you're listening to the radio, things you can't so if you're watching TV or watching a phone.
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I love my Nike Air Max trainers. They're big and bulky and spanking - I can't be doing with grubby trainers.
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Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.
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Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.
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Last night they kind of took me out of the game defensively and my teammates stepped up. Tonight was just a little different. I stepped up in the fourth quarter. We just need everyone to contribute.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Just as is happening in many other places in the world now, as there has been a rash of decisions in other countries, either legislative or judicial, validating same-gender marriages, I think that the time will come in Hawaii.
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I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
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I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.
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There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
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If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
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What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.
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Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
