Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
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In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters
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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
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We'll continue to invest in new technology because we think every woman should have the ability to be connected through her beauty knowledge, opinions, products, and routine.
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Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.
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I don't want the IRS banging down my door.
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In the late 1980s, a new revolt broke out, this time led by the fundamentalist FIS (Islamic Salvation Front). Many of its leaders were the kind of young Algerians who joined the struggle against the French occupiers in the 1950s.
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You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.
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I always find with dramas that the more that's left to the imagination of the audience, the better.
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We're all funny. Humor unites us.
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My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.
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I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.
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Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.
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Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.
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The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies. (p. 70)
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εἰ δὲ θεὸν ἀνήρ τις ἔλπεταί τι λαθέμεν ἔρδων, ἁμαρτάνει.
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.
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I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.
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Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?
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I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.
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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
