Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a tomboy.
-
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
-
The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
-
One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
-
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
-
Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
-
The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
-
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
-
I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
-
I was introduced to cinema by C-grade films that played in my village, Budhana, in UP. Only films by Dada Kondke, Mahendra Sandhu, and Kanti Shah were available.
-
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
-
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
-
Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
-
I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
-
Music can tear me up inside.
-
I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'
-
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
-
It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.
-
Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.
-
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
-
He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
-
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
