Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
Whoopi Goldberg
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
Florence Nightingale
-
I feel like we all have our skeletons.
Taraji P. Henson
-
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell
-
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.
T Bone Burnett
-
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.
Jack Nicholson
-
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz
-
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.
Adam Cohen
-
There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
L. Ron Hubbard
-
From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...
Anna Akhmatova
-
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.
Billy Bragg
-
When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.
Ann Jillian
-
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.
Andy Kindler
-
The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show.
Daniel Lyons
-
Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.
Tyson Fury
-
Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.
Dalai Lama
-
Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.
Edwin Moses
-
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
Mattie Stepanek
-
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
Whoopi Goldberg
