Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
I think because I've gotten permission from my style icons like Tim Gunn and André Leon Talley, who say to me, "You don't need to dress like anyone else, because you're your own fashion icon. You represent comfortable. And you do fashion your way, and you should be at Fashion Week." They gave me permission to enjoy it! And it's great!
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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Some feelings are to mortals givenWith less of earth in them than heaven;And if there be a human tearFrom passion's dross refined and clear,A tear so limpid and so meekIt would not stain an angel's cheek,'Tis that which pious fathers shedUpon a duteous daughter's head!
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I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
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I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.
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Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food.
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I'm becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook.
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Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.
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[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.
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I think because I've gotten permission from my style icons like Tim Gunn and André Leon Talley, who say to me, "You don't need to dress like anyone else, because you're your own fashion icon. You represent comfortable. And you do fashion your way, and you should be at Fashion Week." They gave me permission to enjoy it! And it's great!
