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

• 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

• 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

• 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 don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

  

  Adele
  • Heart
  • Broken
  • Write

• Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Dad

• And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friends
  • Life is
  • Tasting

• We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.

  

  Psy
  • Thinking
  • Dance

• When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • She

• 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