Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'
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When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
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I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
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I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.
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Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.
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Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
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Free haircuts are definitely a nice perk.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
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And although we may be delicate and soft, some men who are delicate are also strong; and others, coarse and harsh, are cowards.
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Good films not only help me grow as an actor but as a human being.
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If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'
