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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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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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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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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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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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
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A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.
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I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'
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The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
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For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
