Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

I'd like everyone to imagine a world where you get a job as Tom, and then the next day you're Tina. Imagine you're in the world where you love what you do, but people say that you can't be who you are.

Whoopi Goldberg

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• We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Band

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Work
  • Community
  • Doing

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Home

• The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Different
  • Country
  • Miami

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Problem

• The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Best
  • Advice

• There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Know
  • Suspension

• And I like music, too, I like playing music.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Music
  • Like
  • Playing

• The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Best
  • Spirit

• 'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Marriage

• Jennifer was great. She is fantastic. Really easy to work with, no drama, really down-to-earth, such a funny girl. Nothing but good things to say about her. She really was great to work with. And it always makes it easier when you’re working with people that you like and you enjoy being around.

  

  Liam Hemsworth
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People
  • Family
  • Guy

• You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Done

• A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

  

  Paul Valery

• Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

  

  William Golding
  • Long
  • Simple
  • Imagination

• When you change something like your hair, the whole world changes also.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • World
  • Hair

• Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Art
  • College

• Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world.

  

  Kate Richards O'Hare
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• I'd like everyone to imagine a world where you get a job as Tom, and then the next day you're Tina. Imagine you're in the world where you love what you do, but people say that you can't be who you are.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • World
  • Imagine