Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
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Love is sweeping the country.
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I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.
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One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.
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Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.
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Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
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I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life.
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Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
