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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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 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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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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The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
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You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.
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Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.
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My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.
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When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead
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In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. Bernard Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.
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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.'
