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
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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.
Florence Nightingale
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
Taraji P. Henson
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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.
T Bone Burnett
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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.
Jack Nicholson
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz
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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.
Yolanda Adams
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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...
Anna Akhmatova
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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.
Billy Bragg
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When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.
Ann Jillian
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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.
Andy Kindler
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Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.
Lemn Sissay
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If you feel your rights are being abused by the authorities, and you don't say something, sometimes the cops don't know how far to take it. They have a hard job, but at the same time, I think it's just about educating yourself.
Corey Hawkins