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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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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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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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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One of the beautiful things about being a part of 'Star Wars' is that it's one of those few things that are community-building in that way. Maybe that way of putting it is a little self-important. But it is something we all have a connection to, something everybody knows about. There aren't that many of those things.
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Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
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It's not just be on the Walker Cup team and have that star after your name. A lot of these guys want to win the Walker Cup and bring it back to American soil.
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Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.
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I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.
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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.
