Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.
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In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
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'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
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Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
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I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
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Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.
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We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
