Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

Whoopi Goldberg

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Men
  • Free
  • Speak

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Time
  • School
  • Pretty

• I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Hate
  • Religion

• Among both the Northern and Eastern Hamites are to be found some of the most beautiful types of humanity.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Beautiful
  • Humanity

• I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • She

• Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • America
  • Help

• I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Friends
  • American
  • Culture

• Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Inspiration

• I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford

• Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • May
  • Science
  • Running

• The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Spirit
  • Genius
  • Curiosity

• The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Act
  • Revenge
  • Private

• You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Today
  • Ability
  • Tomorrow

• I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

  

  Buddy Ebsen
  • Mother
  • Encouraging
  • Taught

• If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Reality
  • Fighting
  • Gay