Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.
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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
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I like the noise of democracy.
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We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film.
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When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.
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I don't see myself as offending people.
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When people want transportation, they want it now.
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[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
