Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.
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I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.
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Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
