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!

  

  Rachael Ray
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• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
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• Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Me
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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.

  

  Danica McKellar
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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.

  

  Karen Abbott
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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.

  

  Sally Mann
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• There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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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.

  

  Laura Dekker
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• Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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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.

  

  Gary Valentine
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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.

  

  Jack McBrayer
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• Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

  

  Saint Ambrose
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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.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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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.

  

  Laura Benanti
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• I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'

  

  Jay Harrington
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• Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

  

  Billy Crystal
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• I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.

  

  Deborah Mailman
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• I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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• The president has made good on a promise to ensure that the American people are not subject to overreach... and fulfilled a commitment to keep America first and focus on American jobs.

  

  Betsy DeVos
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• I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.

  

  Anna Silk
  • People
  • Resilience

• One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques.

  

  Daniel Levitin
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• [On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
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