Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
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I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
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Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reparat natura figuras: nec perit in toto quicquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant.
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The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
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I have always had confidence in my ability; I knew I'd get a chance coming here. That's one of the main reasons why I signed for Tottenham.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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People ask all the time, 'What would you be doing if you weren't Kid Rock?' It's simple: I'd be broke Kid Rock.
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Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
