Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
Quotes to Explore
-
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
-
If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
-
I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
-
A lot of people want to discredit me.
-
I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
-
People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
-
It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
-
Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
-
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
-
I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.
-
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
-
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
-
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
-
No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
-
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
-
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
-
Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests.
-
I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.
-
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
-
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
-
I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.
-
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
-
Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
