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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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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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
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The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.
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I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.
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They're all my children... every score I've done.
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A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.
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I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
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Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
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Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.
