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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• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• 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.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Experience
  • Fear
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Independent
  • Intellectual

• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Everything
  • Manner

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• 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.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Teacher
  • Hell
  • Tragedy

• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  

  Ovid
  • Make
  • Materials
  • Surpass

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Pleasure
  • Need
  • Animals

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Fashion
  • Style

• You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life

• The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.

  

  Claude Debussy

• I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Character

• If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

  

  Deion Sanders
  • Morning

• I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Simple

• John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Imagination
  • Forest
  • Hood

• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Why

• The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Christian
  • Competition

• I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Black
  • Eye