Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

Whoopi Goldberg

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• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Control
  • Beginning

• I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Focus

• At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Age

• We recognised from the start that we couldn't just stay in the U.K. and Ireland markets. We have always looked to the products of the future. I've always said, 'If you don't innovate, you'll evaporate.'

  

  Martin Naughton
  • Future

• Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

  

  Andrew Mellon
  • Money

• Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Nature

• We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • World
  • Done
  • Business

• We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Violence

• When one must, one can.

  

  Charlotte Whitton

• If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.

  

  David Cross
  • People
  • Black
  • Crazy

• I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.

  

  Chris Wood
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • Up
  • Family
  • House

• That excitement on the court, I'm the same way off the court. I like to have fun, meet people; I like to give high-fives to the kids courtside. Just have fun. That's kind of my personality, that's how I've been.

  

  James Harden
  • People
  • Kids
  • Fun

• Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • God
  • Believe

• But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Thoughts

• We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Shopping

• The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Real

• I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • School
  • College
  • Leaving

• Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Thinking
  • Forever

• I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Distress
  • Sharp

• I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Thinking
  • Successful