Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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I'm easily entertained.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
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My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
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I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.
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I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
