Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.
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I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I lived with Ilana Glazer of 'Broad City.' She was my roommate for a year and a half. I was living with her just as she was creating and filming 'Broad City.' Both of us, and a lot of my friends, come from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater either in New York or L.A.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
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Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.
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When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.
