Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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I like children - fried.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
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If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
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As parents and teachers we need to bring up more of our children with generosity of spirit.
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There is a worst part, and it is this: we spend more time with each other than we do with our wives and children, and we work very long hours - we work non-stop - so when we need to shut off, we need to be separate, or else we - or else we just slip into our work mode.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.
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Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
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When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done.
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Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.
