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!

Whoopi Goldberg

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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.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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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.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
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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.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
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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.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

  

  Barack Obama
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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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• Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, you can go crazy too.Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, I wanna go crazy with you.Everybody sayin' 'Woah, how sweet it is. Woah.'Yeah, it felt good on my lips.

  

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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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• There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

  

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• Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.

  

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• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  

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• I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

  

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• I have found that the many imbalances within our individual lives result in an overall more worldly balance. What I mean is that no matter how unfair I think something is, I need only look at the bigger picture to see how, in a way, it fits... however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
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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!

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Style