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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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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The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.
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I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.
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I have neither time to live nor to write. I am therefore cheating my art by stealing a few evening hours to write this most inadequate and negligent reply to the courteous and elegant letters of yours.
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Google keeps their formulas secret even as they devour more of our habits. CEO Eric Schmidt believes that what customers want is for Google to “tell them what they should be doing next.” Such pronouncements awaken fears of Big Brother or The Matrix. We may need to reclaim our agency, our responsibility.
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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.
