Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
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The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
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Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it.
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They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
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Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
