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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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 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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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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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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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Humankind is an insignificant part of existence.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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This year the crop tends towards the personal, the particular and the recreational. This, the judges believe, points to a society considerably more at ease with itself...
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A part of me wants to leave you alone. A part of me wants for you to come home. A part of me says I'm living a lie and I'm better off without you.
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My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
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I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
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I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
