Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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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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Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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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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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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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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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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Tris was pudgy and not especially good looking, but she had the personality of a beautiful girl because she'd been raised in a math.
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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.
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I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.
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Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
