Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.
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One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.
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I look back at things I said when I was younger - it was bulls - t. You do what you have to do to go where you have to go, but I look back and I don't believe what that guy was saying.
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I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
