Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
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I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
