Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
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If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we're in anymore.
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I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.
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If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.
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Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!
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I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.
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Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
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I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes that happens in certain types of horror movies. I was never a fan of that, I wasn't looking for 'inventive' kills and I even hate that word because it's like, if you have these characters screaming or crying in pain I don't think anyone should be jumping out of their seat cheering. It should be horrible and you should feel sick watching it because that's what it is, sick.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
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If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
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When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.
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I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.
