Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . .

Whoopi Goldberg

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• On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Space

• Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
  • Trip

• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Guy

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Style

• I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Things
  • Have

• In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Feeling
  • Small
  • Achievement

• My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Inspiration

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Almost

• I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • May
  • American
  • Sick

• Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Failure

• Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Work
  • Art

• The idea that just the basis of the game, repetitive hits, could bring on a cascade of issues later in life, that was - it changed the game for me.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Life
  • Game

• Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Pain
  • Creativity
  • Trouble

• Fashion once meant dresses and heels, and I didn't know why I'd want to be dressed that way. Now I'm like, 'Oh my God, those Saint Laurent boots!' Those are not words I thought I'd ever say. A beautiful suit is nice. I get fashion now. In fact, I love it.

  

  Elliot Page
  • God
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• It must be fun to be you And play with love as you do To treat each new romance As merely one more dance Or just another book to glance through It must be fun to acquire Whatever heart you desire, And when you're bored with it To tear it in two, It must be fun to be you.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Fun

• A lot of the older generation are dying off. The younger generation don't really know it. You don't see a lot of 20- or 30-year-olds eating it.

  

  Bobby Moore
  • Dying
  • Generation
  • Older

• I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . .

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Believe
  • Nice
  • Mom