Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?

Whoopi Goldberg

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• I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Sometimes
  • Goals
  • Rapping

• When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • God
  • Man
  • Strong

• I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • American
  • Freedom

• Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Sound

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Street

• I'm an urban act.

  

  Maluma
  • Act
  • Urban

• I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Long
  • Women
  • Hair

• Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Serious
  • Romantic

• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Life
  • World
  • Failure

• Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Air

• So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.

  

  Alan Watts
  • God
  • Reality
  • Deep

• Natura inchina al male, e viene a farsiL'abito poi difficile a mutarsi.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Ow! Have mercy on my little Tulane She's too alive to try to live alone And I know her needs And although she loves me She's gonna try to make it While the poor boy's gone Somebody should tell her to live And I'll understand it And even love her more When I come back home

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Live
  • Home
  • She

• It's much harder to detect a lone wolf than it is somebody who's associated with a larger organization who's having planning meetings and making phone calls to people in the organization. And so that is really how the jihad has really developed in the United States.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • People
  • Organization
  • Planning

• I had a twin, and he didn't make it.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Twin

• A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Real
  • American
  • Feeling

• When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Peace
  • Eyes
  • Poverty

• When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Vegas

• I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!

  

  Daniel Ricciardo
  • Waiting
  • Animal
  • Beast

• In the year 2000, the very youngest members of the Baby Boomer crew were in their mid-30s while the oldest Boomers were mid-50s. That year, the Boomers were a generation divided somewhat equally between the GOP and Democrats.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Baby

• Don't think of him as a Republican. Think of him as the man I love, and if that doesn't work, think of him as the man who can crush you.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Work
  • Crush

• I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.

  

  Lydia Leonard
  • She
  • Wife
  • Horse

• I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Black
  • Waiting
  • Ghost