Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.
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Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.
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Who got the baddest pussy on the planet? D boys love me, they don't understand it.
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Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.
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Joy comes when we have the Spirit in our lives. When we have the Spirit, we rejoice in what the Savior has done for us.
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A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
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Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
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Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.
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As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
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I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.
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In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.
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Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
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The world must be peopled!
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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
