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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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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At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.
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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
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My fried chicken is very simple. I pan-fry it in a skillet.
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Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
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[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
