Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.
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I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.
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Directing takes a lot of time.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
