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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I usually end up making a huge mess every morning when I get dressed. My outfit affects my whole day. I'm always running late, and I'm always trying to make sure I feel really good in what I'm wearing, because if you're wearing something you're not comfortable in, it ruins your day.
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I don't like to look typical.
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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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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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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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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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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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Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of art. I really like that idea.
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I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
