Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

Whoopi Goldberg

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• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
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• You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Education
  • Problem

• Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Decision

• It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Great
  • Human
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• Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Yourself

• I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • North

• One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Amazing

• A lot of players were going to Europe, but there were always stories of teams not being able to pay, and the players and girls were stuck with no money for airfare to come home. So I got a nice contract from Japan and decided to play there.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Money
  • Home
  • Nice

• It's good to have a governing body to oversee matters in making of films, but you can't blame films for what is happening in society.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Good
  • Society

• I have to do so many scenes cooking that I wanted to learn how to chop like I know what I'm doing and do certain things around the kitchen that look right.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Cooking
  • Kitchen

• Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.

  

  Laurence Tribe
  • May
  • Power

• Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Up
  • Long
  • Moving

• We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we're going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world.

  

  Astro Teller
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Music
  • Hope

• Don't matter if you're rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own experiences in life and listen and learn from other people.

  

  Future
  • People
  • Life

• There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.

  

  Alex Shoumatoff
  • Up
  • Live
  • America

• Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Work
  • Humanity

• On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

  

  Fredrik Bajer
  • Time
  • Art
  • Science

• Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Science
  • Hygiene

• I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Addiction

• Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Different
  • Black
  • Lucky