Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.
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There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
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From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...
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I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.
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I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!
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When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.
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When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.
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When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
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I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.
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For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
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I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
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You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
